Everyone seems to be in a kind of accelerated time mode that is beyond their own control.

Acceleration is finite, I think, according to some laws of physics.

Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns.

The highest point of music for me is to become in a place where there is no desire, no craving, wanting to do anything else. It is the best place you have ever been, and yet there is nothing there.

The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.

It's not what happens to you in life that matters; what matters is how you deal with it!

We are either going to dissolve as a human race or we are going to break through into a new understanding of what it is to be a human being.

I had already done Rainbow in Curved Air and had a big record on CBS. I was launched to have a long career and then I just dropped out and went to India.

I was using tape loops for dancers and dance production. I had very funky primitive equipment, in fact technology wasn't very good no matter how much money you had.

It seems like we are moving towards something, some kind of point and it is probably going to be an important point in our development or dissolution. That is what everybody seems to be thinking.

Talking about the all night concerts, I did some of the first all night concerts back in the 60's with this little harmonium, and I also had saxophone taped delays.

The reason that man is seldom satisfied with his salary is that when it increases, he increases his expenses.

It was a shallow thing, this acceptance, but sometimes even shallow things feel important.

The past you lost is just like a dream. As you woke up new lifestarts. So, your actual birthday will be your death day.

In the end it may well be that Britain will be more honoured by the historians for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it.

Because Cards' fans are the most knowledgeable and loyal in all of baseball, they booed almost reluctantly, polite as booing goes, what would have passes as a standing ovation in Philly.

We are in constant danger of being not actors in the drama of our lives but reactors, to go where the world takes us, to drift with whatever current happens to be running the strongest.

If you can't manage courtesy, try silence.

I don’t make my kids say I’m their favorite star.

Whenever I'm sad I'm going to die, or so nervous I can't sleep, or in love with somebody I won't be seeing for a week, I slump down just so far and then I say: 'I'll go take a hot bath.

Keep in mind that God's sovereignty allows Him to even use that which is not cooperating with Him (the bad) in order to move things to where He wants them to go.