There is some music that's truly dark, in that it's dark in terms of hopeless. But then again, the act of hope… — Eyvind Kang Art Copy Share Image
Listening is active. It's like vision. It's like the idea of the eye projecting light, which I've heard is what children and… — Eyvind Kang Active Copy Share Image
I love the pleasure of finding the same truth in two different places. It has a lot to do with a soul. — Eyvind Kang Different Copy Share Image
There is no guiding principle, because the work that is created in collaborations should be created from its own principles. — Eyvind Kang Collaboration Copy Share Image
The most appealing part is the feeling of learning something true - the pleasure of a truth. For me, that's mostly found… — Eyvind Kang Feelings Copy Share Image
I don't like to treat words and sounds like objects. You have to penetrate deeply into their meaning. — Eyvind Kang Language Copy Share Image
I believe that music should be grown on trees, to be plucked like a fruit without the extravagance of harvest. — Eyvind Kang Believe Copy Share Image
Water is the most purifying element. It's always involved in baptisms, healings, that kind of work. — Eyvind Kang Baptism Copy Share Image
Our individual consciousness is actually part of a larger system. There are many levels of consciousness, and the creativity used in composing… — Eyvind Kang Composing Copy Share Image
When you sit with people and you can hear what they're hearing, that's quite interesting. — Eyvind Kang Hearing Copy Share Image
I think the question of actually relating emotion to music is totally interesting. I believe that it is really important on some… — Eyvind Kang Believe Copy Share Image
What happens in our consciousness and minds and bodies is also happening on earth. The more we pollute the earth, for example,… — Eyvind Kang Body Copy Share Image
All these emotions are coming from one thing - sound. It's not coming from your experiences in life, your childhood. It's related… — Eyvind Kang Childhood Copy Share Image
I love the appropriateness of making a dogmatic statement. I support that, but that is a different level of the individual consciousness… — Eyvind Kang Appropriateness Copy Share Image
I woke up and was walking on a mountain, and I thought, "What's the worst thing that humans could do to the… — Eyvind Kang Animals Copy Share Image
In a way, composing on the melodic level is an expression of a melodic truth, almost like a geometric truth. If it… — Eyvind Kang Art Copy Share Image
Even if you're a genius and you invent your own language, it doesn't become a language until there are people using it. — Eyvind Kang Genius Copy Share Image
Who approaches collaboration with agenda in terms of content? The agenda is only in terms of process, which is generosity, listening, careful… — Eyvind Kang Agendas Copy Share Image
Working with the Latin language is pretty powerful. Working with a language that is not spoken vernacularly is intense. — Eyvind Kang Intense Copy Share Image
In a way, all recorded music is reduced to the same level, no matter what it is. You find it in the… — Eyvind Kang Gangsta Copy Share Image
Learning how to listen to others and how to listen to your own thoughts is the ultimate process. — Eyvind Kang Communication Copy Share Image
When you're listening to music, you listen to it with a friend one day and it sounds one way. You listen to… — Eyvind Kang Communication Copy Share Image
Musicians always want to sacrifice our creativity to get involved in environmental issues or political activism of some sort - to reduce… — Eyvind Kang Activism Copy Share Image
