Composing For The Prepared Piano Is Not

Guy Nearing Told Us It's A Good Idea When Hunting Mushrooms To Have A Pleasant Goal, A Waterfall For Instance, And, Having Reached It, To Return Another Way. When, However, We're Obliged To Go And Come Back By The Same Path, Returning We Notice Mushrooms We Hadn't Noticed Going Out.

The Material Of Music Is Sound And Silence. Integrating These Is Composing.

Music Is Edifying, For From Time To Time It Sets The Soul In Operation.

There Are Some Good People In It, But The Orchestra As A Whole Is Equivalent To A Gang Bent On Destruction.

It Was At Harvard Not Quite Forty Years Ago That I Went Into An Anechoic [totally Silent] Chamber Not Expecting In That Silent Room To Hear Two Sounds: One High, My Nervous System In Operation, One Low, My Blood In Circulation. The Reason I Did Not Expect To Hear Those Two Sounds Was That They Were Set Into Vibration Without Any Intention On My Part. That Experience Gave My Life Direction, The Exploration Of Nonintention. No One Else Was Doing That. I Would Do It For Us. I Did Not Know Immediately What I Was Doing, Nor, After All These Years, Have I Found Out Much. I Compose Music.