It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.

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.

I'm writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.

Paths are many, Truth is ONE!

If your work is so smart that only smart people get it, it's not that smart.

Selling drug secrets violates a trust that is fundamental to the integrity of both scientific research and our financial markets.

There was never any question about it: we [with Yoko Ono] had to have a 50-50 relationship or there was no relationship, I was quick to learn.

Baby I'm so into you I can hardly breathe.

The critical question is not "How can I achieve?" but "What can I contribute?"

Vain, very vain, my weary search to find That bliss which only centers in the mind.

The unbeliever knows his Koran best.

Therefore, the observation must be explicitly made: In the Middle East and in the Muslim world, suspicions linger concerning the objectives of the West and notably the US.