I have never seen faces, but because I have looked people in the eye, only their gazes.

If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.

Music is only understood when one goes away singing it and only loved when one falls asleep with it in one's head, and finds it still there on waking up the next morning.

There is still plenty of good music to be written in C major.

I find above all that the expression, atonal music, is most unfortunate — it is on a par with calling flying the art of not falling, or swimming the art of not drowning.

My music is not modern, it is merely badly played

My work should be judged as it enters the ears and heads of listeners, not as it is described to the eyes of readers.

I am the slave of an internal power more powerful than my education.

Composing is a slowed-down improvisation; often one cannot write fast enough to keep up with the stream of ideas.

If music is frozen architecture, then the potpourri is frozen coffee-table gossip... Potpourri is the art of adding apples to pears.

You cannot expect the Form before the Idea,For they will come into being together.

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

My life was going to flash before my eyes, but it decided to hide behind my eyes and quake with terror instead.

I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.

What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all.

It's a good addition. There are so many bad addictions. Better be addicted to shoes than something else

I paint flowers to prevent them from dying

Microsoft's philosophy is to get it out there and fix it later. Steve [Jobs] would never do that. He doesn't get anything out there until it is perfected.

I will open an era of grand national unity.

Let me just say that every cover of every magazine I've done has been airbrushed to death. No woman should walk around thinking that's what they should be. You shouldn't be beating yourself up.

I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.