Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.

Nature endows us with the feeling that moves us in all our musical experiences; we might call her gift instinct.

We must have recourse to the rules of music when our genius and our ear seem to deny what we are seeking.

I try to conceal art with art.

When reason and instinct are reconciled, there will be no higher appeal.

Music is a science which should have definite rules; these rules should be drawn from an evident principle; and this principle cannot really be known to us without the aid of mathematics.

Rhythm and sounds are born with syllables.

In f-major, c* is a sonority contained within the overtones of the tonic f*.

Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin.

I will meet you in that gap where consciousness meets unconsciousness.

It’s all part of it, man.

Come with me into the woods where spring isadvancing, as it does, no matter what, not being singular or particular, but oneof the forever gifts, and certainly visible.

We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace.

Real motivation is that drive from within: You know where you are going because you have a compelling image inside, not a travel poster on the wall.

You get one pass at life. That’s all. Only one. And the lasting measure of that life is Jesus Christ.

My acting coach I've got here, Richard Lawson, he's been doing good, just telling me to calm down sometimes and just be me.

Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.

Most actors can't make any kind of living.

Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made it possible to become wealthy by serving your fellow man.