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Music is thousands and thousands of years old and I don't think that basic, primitive connection to the language of music ever changes.

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Music is organized sound.

Music is made up out of these building blocks. Studying how these blocks go together and what they consist of and the math of how it works - it's all the same stuff; it's just different aesthetics that we're talking about.

Music is an art form. It is a way to wordlessly communicate.

I see music as fluid architecture.

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.

I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.