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“To me, I took a militant attitude towards sounds. I wanted sounds to be a metaphor, that they could be as free as a human being might be free. That was my idea about sound. It still is, that they should breathe … not to be used for the vested interest of an idea. I feel that music should have no vested interests, that you shouldn't know how it's made, that you shouldn't know if there's a system, that you shouldn't know anything about it … except that it's some kind of life force that to some degree really changes your life … if you're into it.”

Quoted in a 1976 interview, published in Desert Plants by Walter Zimmermann.

“Do we have anything in music for example that really wipes everything out? That just cleans everything away?”

Quoted from a 1982 lecture

“Music can imply the infinite if enough things depart from the norm far enough. Strange "abnormal" events can lead to the feeling that anything can happen, and you have a music with no boundaries.”

Quoted in Remembrance by Tom Johnson (September 1987)