Charlemagne Quotes

Right action is better than knowledge; but in order to do what is right, we must know what is right.

If the populace knew with what idiocy they were ruled, they would revolt.

To speak another language is to have another soul

Make us eternal truths receive, And practice all that we believe: Give us thyself, that we may see The Father and the Son, by thee.

Herbs are the friend of the physician and the pride of cooks.

I never became primarily a musician! I've always been a wanderer and I'm always bored.

It's been my experience, Langford, that the past always has a way of returning. Those who don't learn, or can't remember it, are doomed to repeat it.

Not that I have anything against music now, but I just hated being an anything. I don't know why.

There are pieces that in the history of music that also make me cry. I'm not ashamed to cry.

I hung around hippie-ish kind of people and, first of all, they never made any money. If you never make any money, you never have to declare any profession!

I never made any money from my music. I don't make that much; I make it flip-flopping between five and ten different disciplines.

There are some people who love being a something, but I also got the gist in the 60's when I grew up that you could be, in the art scene, very diverse.

I never wanted to have a profession, and I've succeeded in not having one, or if I did have one it never paid, or it's never been especially long-term.

My music education was oral. I was resistant to scores and things like that. In Jewish religious music, there are no scores. You learn everything by rote, by ear, by repeating.

I actually started as a singer in Brooklyn, and I lived in a community. To get out of the ghetto of my community, I was a musician.

I'm not afraid to be a Russian Jewish romantic in my approach to anything, even in my animal divinities, or anything about the feeling.

People never heard bells in Western music sounding really cataclysmic. You hear that more in Russian music or in Asian, Indonesian traditions.

To have another language is to possess a second soul.

People like him, who buried their past so determinedly, should not help it from the grave so easily.

Let peace, concord and unanimity reign among all Christian people...for without peace we cannot please God.