Compose first, worry later.

Don't be too dismissive of children. While it's true that few children are artists, all artists are children.

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.

Divine fires do not blaze each day but an artist functions in their afterglow, hoping for their recurrence.

Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.

It's not evil that's ruining the earth, but mediocrity. The crime is not that Nero played while Rome burned, but that he played badly.

Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.

If music could be translated into human speech, it would no longer need to exist.

The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty.

The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.

Nothing is a waste that makes a memory.

We were created to purposefully live a life that glorifies God

There was a great deal of progress being made, right under their noses, particularly in Africa, and this progress was good. Life was much harder for tyrants than it had been before.

The defects of a preacher are soon spied.

He cares about the people involved, but I don't think he's a big football fan.

History and memory share events; that is, they share time and space. Every moment is two moments.

What is perfect health? The unraveling of all imagined states of mind

We learned how to love each other by loving together good things wholly outside each other.

How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?

I really haven't joined the 20th or the 21st century yet. Someday. I'm getting closer. I have voicemail and a fax machine.

When I hear bluegrass today, I hear so many new sounds in it. It's almost like country music in a way.