Everybody improvises their way through every day. And so I do that with music. — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
Listening is not the same as hearing and hearing is not the same as listening — Pauline Oliveros Communication Copy Share Image
A mouse and a keyboard is not a good performance instrument. — Pauline Oliveros Instrument Copy Share Image
Listening is selecting and interpreting and acting and making decisions. — Pauline Oliveros Acting Copy Share Image
[Improvisation ] is been with me all my life. We all do it. — Pauline Oliveros Improvisation Copy Share Image
When I am composing, the sounds are leading me to the way I want them to organize. — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
I'm thinking of the audience as being ambient, meaning not sitting focused but being in the space and exploring it while listening… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
[My interest in music] is from my mother and my grandmother, who were pianists, and they taught. — Pauline Oliveros Grandmother Copy Share Image
I got very interested in attention and awareness and how to achieve certain states through understanding this. — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
Listen to everything all the time and remind yourself when you are not listening. — Pauline Oliveros Communication Copy Share Image
The sound that I play is delayed, it's modified, and it's modulated. It's an intelligent system; it's happening now. — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
I had to cope with attitudes that were not supportive all along. I mean, you still have that. — Pauline Oliveros Attitude Copy Share Image
The students were missing out a lot in their ensemble playing because they weren't listening to each other or the environment. — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
We have a very large constituency in the world from all of the years that we've done workshops, retreats, and talks. I… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
Those people who don't have any voluntary control, or hands, can work with the physical movement that they can do - whatever… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
There is a book called San Francisco Tape Music Centre:1960s Counterculture and the Avant-Garde and this book describes everything that you want… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
One day I decided I would like to put a record into my system. So I picked up a record that was… — Pauline Oliveros Aria Copy Share Image
I didn't have any sophisticated equipment at all. The equipment we had in the studio at the time was not intended to… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
I can't really deal with buttons. And that's what I keep saying, "Okay, I can't push buttons, because that means I have… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
My mother brought home the accordion in 1942. I was fascinated and wanted to learn to play it. Some of my music… — Pauline Oliveros Accordion Copy Share Image
All the way from the first thing that I can remember, like our Victrola - a wind-up record player - and my… — Pauline Oliveros Crystals Copy Share Image
I try to influence this improvisation in two ways. One is by centering on reflections, in both senses of the word: acoustic… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
Deep Listening is listening in every possible way to everything possible to hear no matter what you are doing. Such intense listening… — Pauline Oliveros Awareness Copy Share Image
People's experiences are all different, and you don't know what the person experienced. They know, but you don't, so I think it's… — Pauline Oliveros Barriers Copy Share Image
I have a variety of ways that I make music, but I'm working with the Thingamajigs in a particular way, which is:… — Pauline Oliveros Beautiful Copy Share Image
I noticed you could monitor the recording that you're making, but you could also monitor the playback head. There's a little distance… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
Deep Listening is listening to everything all the time, and reminding yourself when you're not. But going below the surface too, it's… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
In my Deep Listening class at RPI, I always do an hour of energy exercises to start with. Then we do a… — Pauline Oliveros Body Copy Share Image
I became interested in the delay, having sounds recorded and played back and then come back. I did many different configurations of… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
Radio broadcasting was only 25 years old when I was born in 1932. — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
The sound and just the fact that it was different from the piano, yet it still had some familiarity [made my fascinated… — Pauline Oliveros Accordion Copy Share Image
My writing has always been a rather non-linear process. I've found if I get something down, I can listen to it and… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
Deep listening is experiencing heightened awareness or expanded awareness of sound and of silence, of quiet, and of sounding - making sounds. — Pauline Oliveros Awareness Copy Share Image
I would play a long tone on my accordion, or I'd sing one, and I would note how it felt - what… — Pauline Oliveros Accordion Copy Share Image
In the beginning we were making tape music, meaning, we were making music on tape. — Pauline Oliveros Music Copy Share Image
You run into stereotypes so that the stereotype filters who you are and what you do, and having to deal with that… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
![“[Improvisation ] is been with me all my life. We all do it.” quote by Pauline Oliveros](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/529/pauline-oliveros-8481_improvisation_improvisation-is-been-with-me-all-my-lif_1630057.jpg)
![“[My interest in music] is from my mother and my grandmother, who were pianists, and they taught.” quote by Pauline Oliveros](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/841/pauline-oliveros-8481_grandmother_my-interest-in-music-is-from-my-mother-a_2957240.jpg)
![“The sound and just the fact that it was different from the piano, yet it still had some familiarity [made my fascinated with accordion].” quote by Pauline Oliveros](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/23c/pauline-oliveros-8481_accordions_the-sound-and-just-the-fact-that-it-was_971192.jpg)
