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On our farm in Nuzerov in the Czech Republic, meaning Chesnut Village, the environment in which I found myself composing was just short of insanity. If it wasn't my five year old son playing his videos, it was my father-in-law, who is hard of hearing, watching television at deafening volumes, or my wife's nephew playing his heavy metal tapes at chromosome damaging levels. My focus is beyond lethal. I assume if I made eye contact with someone while deep in the midst (of composing) I'd burn a hole in them.

At the speed of music, I traveled through sixty-five days in 70 minutes and feel, in retrospect, as if it were only a blink of an eye. The 2000 measures of music that comprise String Quartets #3, 4 & 5 feel as if one journey and should be performed as such: a triptych, if you will.

In this world of no attention span, "one-trick-ponies," perpetual self-involvement and relentless mediocrity, I find myself in my own self-indulgences so not to go mad from boredom. My insane hard work and refusal to settle and being haunted by the relentless feelings of "not finished," obviously, have driven me to my many compositional successes. But, then there are those certain works which come from a place where I can only assume my collaborative input was the ability to listen to a higher consciousness.

I offer listen to my work in a process of refining and find myself so many times wondering, "How in the world did I manage to write that?! One might say that I'm in a perpetual psycho-cybernetic process of listening...constantly aware of continuity and balance...suspending time within the boundaries (if there really are any) of composition.

Hayden Wayne

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This is serious music, and these are major works. There is nothing here that smacks of populist, commercial art. I would place Wayne very high among the ranks of major American symphonists. Highly recommended.

     —Jerry Dubins , Fanfare Magazine 2004

....'Wayne is a forceful composer.'

     —Variety 1983

....'His work is well wrought and refreshingly original, but at the same time more accessible to the average listener than most new music. Mr. Wayne seems to understand what our age needs at this point.

     —Maurice Edwards , Artistic Director Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra

'He has a lyrical voice mixed with a little wit, plenty of passion and tremendous sense of drama. What Gershwin did with jazz, he does with rock 'n' roll! A truly original voice who should be heard.'

     —Mark J. Petracca , The New Review of Records 1995