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- The greatest artists have ways of recycling the fuel they use for their initial masterpieces. Great artists create a sustainable existential ecosystem for themselves.
- What Bach and Shakespeare have in common is a total mastery of the meta-grammar that underlies both music and language.
- Happiness for me is a sunny room, with books, records, and a typewriter; in that environment, I feel I am in an infinite space.
4. Thought is written in invisible ink; language is the dye which makes the ink visible on the page.
5. The distinction between the sacred and the secular simply doesn’t exist in baroque music: everything is sacred, the world is still enchanted.
6. An artist is a spy from an invisible country.
7. Art which survives in a commercial environment, naturally, produces a profit; aesthetic splendor, on the other hand, is not fit for survival.
8. Philosophy is launched on the wings of music, then parachutes down into the dark realm of reason.
9. Industrialization and technology have ruined everything: we create among the ruins.
10. I’m firmly post-apocalyptic: every day is morning in a broken world, held together and run by computers.
