In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing.

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.

Life without music is unthinkable.

It is the artists of the world, the feelers and the thinkers who will ultimately save us; who can articulate, educate, defy, insist, sing and shout the big dreams.

The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second fiddle with enthusiasm

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.

A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers.

I can't live one day without hearing music, playing it , studying it , or thinking about it .

I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.

People enjoy convincing others, if others are wrong they convince them towards right, if others are already right they still want to convince them towards wrong.

We were revisionists

It's hardly ever that I am hurt by something in only one dimension.

You cannot live without doing something.

Be very clear as to what your dream is. Nowadays it is fairly certain that 90 percent of all actors really just want to be rich and famous as the solution to all that ails.

Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.

I don't really think I know myself. I don't quite get how K-pop is functioning. But I'm certain that we need to grab the approval when we have the chance.

The exhaustion of the passions is the beginning of wisdom.

The job of the designer is to make things understandable, usable, accessible, enjoyable... important to a public, that involves the public.

The fact that you're friends doesn't necessarily equate to great chemistry.