I think from age 13, 14, 15, I thought, yes, this rich studio produced music is the future, but it can't be the future to go run away into the record….

When I was done with high school, I knew that music was really important to me and I knew I didn't want to be a cellist, but I wasn't really sure if ….

I started thinking, my gosh, all this sophisticated software for measuring how Yo-Yo plays, and how he moves and this technique of the bow, I should ….

I think in many ways, the texture of technology actually diminishes human beings. It doesn't augment them..

The way I listen to music goes in waves depending on a lot of things. How busy I am, if I'm in between composition projects, if I'm starting a new pr….

Works of art should be stimulating. They should wake people up rather than acting like a sedative..

I started realizing that one of the great things about opera is that if you make the right kind of story, you can still have this kind of abstract su….

Perhaps 25 to 50 years from now, I can design a piece of music, no so that it appeals to something common in millions of people, but I can design the….

I like the idea of imagining a sound and feeling a sound and then having it come out through your body, through an instrument. That's an important wa….

Any Beatles song is perfect. It gets to you right away..

There's just an incredibly rich and interesting relationship between our listening to music and the way our minds engage..

Music seems to stimulate more parts of our mind than almost every other activity. It combines more parts of our minds. It synchronizes our minds. It ….

I think part of the bad thing is that skill is emphasized so much that a lot of people, by the time they get to Juilliard, well I think they kind of ….

I think the seed was planted when I was a teenager, and it took me until I got out of Juilliard. At Juilliard I was just learning to be a composer, b….

The basic idea of a hyper instrument is where the technology is built right into the instrument so that the instrument knows how its being played - l….

My message is to forget about dichotomies. The Brain Opera is an opera, even if it does not tell a story in the usual way. It is a psychological jour….

I think that one of the things about music is it's supposed to be spontaneous, it's supposed to be real human beings bouncing off of each other wheth….

My work on hyper instruments started with simple instruments, like the piano..

Nobody talks about music as having intrinsic meaning, how it engages the mind..

The English learned, in my view, how to use harmony much earlier than the French or the Italians, or the Germans..

There were a lot of things happen in the mid-'80's that all of a sudden made it possible to do a lot of very quick interactive music..