La Monte Young: "God created the body so that the soul could come to earth to study music so that it could have a better understanding of universal structure. Music can be a model for universal structure ebcause we berceive sound as vibration and [I believe] that vibration is the key to universal structure"
also: "It's curious that money gets tied up with this kind of really extraordinary spiritual and learning experience about the nature of universal structure"
and: "[O]ur entire concept of time is dependent on an understanding of periodicity. [...] Time is really a very important aspect of universal structure. What I have learned is it goes very slowly."