Music transcends all and takes us to wondrous places.

FAITH is the foundation you build your house upon. You put up studs of HOPE and walls of DREAMS. Insulate it with JOY, and you fill it with LOVE. This is the secret of a blissful home, my friends!

Music is supposed to be an escape. It's supposed to be somewhere you go, where you can be yourself, or be whatever you want to be...

I had grown up on Folkway's Nonesuch field recordings and the stuff Lomax had done for the Library of Congress, but the production values on the Ocora releases were on a whole other level. Eno and I realized that music from elsewhere didn't need to sound distant, scratchy, or 'primitive.' These recordings were as well produced as any contemporary recordings in any genre. You were made to feel, for example, that this music wasn't a ghostly remnant form some lost culture, soon to be relegated to the almost forgotten past. It was vital, and it was happening right now. To us there was strange beauty there, deep passion, and the compositions often operated by rules and structures that were radically different from what we were used to. As a result, our limited ideas of what constituted music were exploded forever. These recordings opened up myriad ways that music could be made and organized. There were many musical universes out there, and we had been blinkered by confining ourselves to only one.

To compose music, all you have to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of

To see itself through, music must have idea or magic. ... Music with neither dies young though rich."