If you don't have enough time to accomplish something, consider the work finished once it's begun.

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.

Just like you can’t reap a harvest without planting seeds, so you can’t get without giving.

My question is, do you believe in an evil possessed of its own purity? or does every act intend some good?...

The stars will live for me, if not anything else

The system doesn't have to be pure, but it does have to work.

I've been too productive for too long, and despite what anybody wants to strip away from me, I am influential. I am.

The understanding also hath its idiosyncrasies as well as other faculties.

When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.

We make conscious choices to do something a certain way.

I've never gotten up to see something one of my kids wanted to show me and not been rewarded.

I don't think a reporter should give advice or make predictions.