"People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening,' as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to."

"I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things."

"If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture."

"I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders."

"I'm possibly a very morbid person but I think about death a lot."

"There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever."

"I think you're working and learning until you die."

"Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street."