I remember loving sound before I ever took a music lesson. And so we make our lives by what we love.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

Everything you do is music, and everywhere is the best seat.

The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.

The world is no longer a romantic place; some of its people still are however, and therein lies the promise. Don't let the world win.

It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

I have nothing to say, and I am saying it.

Good music can act as a guide to good living.

Look at everything. Don't close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see.

The best friends of the highest mountains are only the clouds and the adventurer mountaineers!

I do the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle every morning to keep the old grey matter ticking.

In January 1776, Thomas Paine issued 'Common Sense, ' advocating independence from Great Britain.

And come, blue deeps! magnificently strown With coloured clouds - large, light, and fugitive.

My mum and I are, in many ways, quite similar. We're both creative, gregarious, and energetic.

If we don't get this economy going, the numbers that represent this stimulus package are going to be small compared to the loss of revenue to the federal government for our economy.

Those who plant trees plant hope.

If the view is very beautiful, do not sit and watch; go to the view, be in the view!

The only real payoff for leadership is eternal.

Anybody who has listened to certain kinds of music, or read certain kinds of poetry, or heard certain kinds of performances on the concertina, will admit that even suicide has its brighter aspects.