I know nothing at all about music.

Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious.

I regard the Jewish race as the born enemy of pure humanity and everything that is noble in it.

Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.

Imagination creates reality.

The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every heart.

It is a truth forever, that where the speech of man stops short there Music's reign begins.

We must learn to die, and to die in the fullest sense of the word. The fear of the end is the source of all lovelessness

A political man is disgusting, but a political wife, horrible.

Monsters that live under children's beds have power only because of the child's ignorance. Thus the nonexistent becomes efficacious.

I'll take a redrum with a rellik please.

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning we feel a certain void. 'Nothing in the paper today ' we sigh.

There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.

Because I was raised in a Christian culture I never considered myself to be a totally free human being.

God, I always just think of myself as a jeans and T-shirt kind of person.

I am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce.

Collective human actions are transforming, even ravaging, the biosphere - perhaps irreversibly - through global warming and loss of biodiversity.

If it's the right chair, it doesn't take too long to get comfortable in it.

I'd been performing in bands since I was 12 which represented, at that point, about 16 years of playing music.