For centuries, everything was taught through music. History was taught through music; language and mathematics were taught through music.

I love loud music. I listen loud, and that's part of how I've learned how to do this. Record softly and play back loud and a whole other thing happens.

I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer.

We live in an age lit by lightnin'; after the flash, we're blind again.

Risk is what separates the artist from the artisan.

The more perfect music we have, the more attractive the peculiarities and anomalies of human performance become. Perfection is a second rate idea.

The essence of show business is, if you see a tight-rope walker go across a tight rope, everybody claps. But, if you see him wobble, everybody gasps.

When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild.

If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.

I've seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener.

Technology changes nothing.

My recurring desire for you has brought me to a point, where, the life I always imagine I shall have with you, seems like a distant memory.

Sometimes while gazing at the night's sky, I imagine stars looking down making wishes on the brightest of us.

What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their arrangement.

Make sure everyone who works with you or for you, feels the need to tell others about the incredible experience.

Unless you're not pushing yourself, you're not living to the fullest. You can't be afraid to fail, but unless you fail, you haven't pushed hard enough."

We use only 10% of our brains... Imagine how smart we would be if we used the other 60%!

The product is the delivery of the largest number of people at the least cost.

I love capitalism. It rewards me for being brave - it awards me for being innovative and thinking out of the box.

I always add a year to myself, so I'm prepared for my next birthday. So when I was 39, I was already 40.

If there are no roads you can walk, break down the walls!