It seems like we are moving towards something, some kind of point and it is probably going to be an important point in our development or dissolution. That is what everybody seems to be thinking.

Acceleration is finite, I think, according to some laws of physics.

Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns.

The highest point of music for me is to become in a place where there is no desire, no craving, wanting to do anything else. It is the best place you have ever been, and yet there is nothing there.

The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.

It's not what happens to you in life that matters; what matters is how you deal with it!

We are either going to dissolve as a human race or we are going to break through into a new understanding of what it is to be a human being.

I had already done Rainbow in Curved Air and had a big record on CBS. I was launched to have a long career and then I just dropped out and went to India.

I was using tape loops for dancers and dance production. I had very funky primitive equipment, in fact technology wasn't very good no matter how much money you had.

Talking about the all night concerts, I did some of the first all night concerts back in the 60's with this little harmonium, and I also had saxophone taped delays.

Everyone seems to be in a kind of accelerated time mode that is beyond their own control.

Nobody can give you freedom, nobody can give you equality or justice. If you are a man, you take it.

In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.

China has leapfrogged into this information age, and Web users have grown very significantly, which knocked down the cost of doing the environmental transparency.

If it makes you cry, it goes in the show.

A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time.

Veteran performers are dying off, and new acts simply aren't emerging on the national scene.

But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.

And, yes, I love the process of building.

It has not been unknown that judges persist in error to avoid giving the appearance of weakness and vacillation.

We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.