If an apprentice does not hear what a master hears, is then that quality not present in the music? Yes and no. In the world in which the apprentice lives no.

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Quiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence.

If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on?

Usually people think that it is the musicians who create the music, but in fact it is music who creates the musicians.

What has changed in 40 years? It’s very simple: 40 years ago there was a market economy. Today there is a market society – today everything, including ethics, has a price.

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

Understanding is simple. Knowing is complicated.

I'm not really interested in music. Music is just a means of creating a magical state.

Music so wishes to be heard that it sometimes calls on unlikely characters to give it voice.

We know others to the extent that we know ourselves.

But remember, Kacey has a temper and she's crazy protective of you so if you need bail money, let me know.

The foods that are nearby are best for human beings, and things that he has to struggle to obtain turn out to be the least beneficial of all.

Egos clash. That's the nature of egos.Treat these outbursts as sneezing fits.

There are certainties in existence, but love is something much harder to define than light and dark, life and death. I think saying you are "like" someone in love sounds right.

Self-taught are those without formal education. Most self-taught artists have missing ingredients to their work.

Three things see no end- A flower blighted ere it bloomed, A message that was wasted, And a journey that was doomed.

Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.

...the poet, while creating anew, is likely to be in a sense restoring something old.

Herein lies our problem. If we level that much land to grow rice and whatever, then no other animal could live there except for some insect pest species. Which is very unfortunate.

The message coming back at all of us is: live without closure.