It was so much fun conducting an orchestra and watching the musicians' faces as some of Kanye's lyrics went by. They couldn't believe what was going on.

Music looks very formidable to people outside of it and it looks like it's this realm of spooky genius.

Things begin, things decay, and you've got to find a way to be okay.

Brian Eno developed systems to keep himself on edge and to keep himself in a position where he's generating ideas.

The people I choose to work with, I work with because I'm already impressed with them.

There began to appear before my romantic eyes...a vast and complicated network of espionage, terror, sadism and hate, from which no one, official or private, could escape.

One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.

Music is an emotional experience, and that is what imprints itself on the soul.

The ageless melody, unheard, heals; the healing vision, unseen, leads; the true leaders, immortal, know...

I choose to worship not believing in God and government should not thrust a religious idea down my throat.

I have spent a lot of time in the art world, and I guess I do listen to how people speak. I'm interested in what they say and how they say it.

Odd thing about death ... it reaffirms life.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

[When asked at age 79 why her Paris apartment was located up many flights of stairs at the top of the building:] It's the only way I can still make the hearts of men beat faster.

Well, I can't leave Mags behind," says Finnick. "She's one of the few people who actually likes me.