A.S.A. Harrison Quotes

The more people wake up spiritually, the more they'll begin to realize the depth of what Prabhupada was saying - how much he gave.

What do you think of the criticism that you're not very good?

Everybody should just stay at home and meditate and they'd be so much happier.

Without going out of my door, I can know all things on earth. Without looking out of my window I could know the ways of heaven. The farther one travels, The less one knows, the less one really knows.

Consciousness and meditation are methods where you can actually obtain GOD perception.

truth ... is the first casualty of tyranny.

The whole thing of life and all the answers to everything are in one divine law, Karma action and reaction.

I'd rather be one of the devotees of God than one of the straight, so-called sane or normal people who just don't understand that man is a spiritual being, that he has a soul.

The nicest thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them.

This song ain't black or white and as far as I know it don't infringe on anyone's copyright.

The Lord is in everything that's in creation. So, when you look at a tree, it's really a reflection of God. You see it in other people - that's him too, you know?

Make love, take love, but you should give love. And try to live love.

You've got to be humble really to be yourself or to get a chance to be yourself.

For the forest to be green, each tree must be green.

I've been able to see the world many times over. The thing I've learned is less is more. I travel as light as possible. I try to carry on.

I never really saw my dad around when the Iron Maiden and the AC/DC were playing. But he knew what I was doing. I was just absorbing music. So he just kind of left me to my own devices.

I went to university (Brown), I worked as a designer, I competed in Olympic sport (rowing) ... and I ended up being a musician. It's in the DNA, I guess.

When my dad toured in '91, I think my first gig properly was the Tokyo Dome, 50,000 people indoors. That was pretty scary. I was 12, or 13.

I was an only child. I hung out with my parents.

One interviewer asked me: 'How do you feel that you've betrayed your father?' That wasn't really very cool.

I am afraid to show you who I really am, because if I show you who I really am, you might not like it--and that's all I got.

The key point some Christians miss is that scientific ignorance about the beginning of life, or any of life's processes, is not evidence of a god.

The undead did not love, but they remembered love with a savage loyalty.

Websites are kind of useless. There's so much great web content and design out there, but the ways in which they are being experienced are not being maximized.

My mother was my first jealous lover.

It's in the films and songs and all your magazines. It's everywhere that you may go, the devil's radio.

Bikes and planes aren’t about going fast or having fun; they’re toys, but serious ones.

He wanted that again, that feeling of standing with her against all odds and succeeding. He wanted it so bad, he was going to risk destroying everything he and his father had worked for.

I like working. It is where I feel useful. I have no plans to cut down. I am happy with what I do. There will be a lot more of me yet, that's for sure.

I continue to develop some things for myself and also take advantage of good parts as they come along.

I do not go to the gym. I do not train. I am not that careful about what I eat. I cannot give you any advice about keeping fit. The best advice I can give is choose your parents wisely.

Writings like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.

I never feel sexy. I have a distant relationship with the mirror.

Even those of us who are very very aware are still so unaware. Everything's relative so that, the more you know, the more you know you don't know anything.

I'm not an architectural composer.

I think it's undignified to read for the purposes of escape. After you grow up, you should start reading for other purposes

Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.

My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.

I keep stacks of Autobiography of a Yogi around the house, and I give it out constantly to people. When people need 'regrooving,' I say read this, because it cuts to the heart of every religion.

The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.

Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.

People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.

Music is such a problem in the time it takes.

Fear only the warm embrace of passive stupidity.

Life goes on within you and without you

I have to be very careful about how often I drag my family to places. They need some stability in their lives.

But I always held my music up and protected it from compromise. So I just do it for my friends. I've written hundreds of songs, and I'm sure I have a few albums worth of songs.

Then when I got to Hollywood, the first musical I did was Festival in 1977.

What I ended up doing was becoming an actor who didn't mind doing other people's words.

I'm a dark horse, running on a dark race course