Art does not begin with imitation, but with discipline.

The possible has been tried and failed. Now it's time to try the impossible.

Where human eyes have never seen, where human beings have never been, I build a world of abstract dreams, and I wait for you.

The real aim of music is to co-ordinate the minds of the people into an intelligent reach for a better world and an intelligent approach to the living future.

The planet is asleep and it's the fault of musicians who are untrue to themselves.

A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.

Well, actually, I'm a psychic being, and you know, we don't concern ourselves with being born; we concern ourselves with being eternal; we deal with the spirit.

The light of the future casts the shadows of tomorrow.

If you’re not mad at the world, you don’t have what it takes

The outer space beings are my brothers. They sent me here. They already know my music.

I think of myself as a complete mystery. To myself.

A life has to move or it stagnates.

The Mormons had a divine revelation in favour of polygamy, but under pressure from the United States Government they discovered that the revelation was not binding.

You cannot stoke the fires of prejudice against German people and then not find that somewhere, sometime down the road it doesn't discharge.

The British keep employing me, and that makes me like them. It also makes me think they're very intelligent.

If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.

It's far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood.

The tobacco companies knew quite early on the addictive nature of their product.

Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.

The Indian idea is that the soul is formless. Whatever is form must break some time or other.

The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.