It would be nice to hear someone accidentally whistle something of mine, somewhere, just once.

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.

She is a small woman with a face like a book mite

One's sovereignty over the land is expressed most powerfully in the act of banishment. Perhaps the first eviction recorded in human history was Adam and Eve's.

I'm after a snake and please God I'll scotch it.

I think everyone should own six guns, even though I don't own any.

Balance the cost of the soul you lost with the dreams you lightly sold.

I drink for the honorable purpose of getting bagged.

Girls and women are most victimised in societies where boys and men are disempowered.

You've got to hang on to who you are, what you are. Don't let anyone take it from you.

Fettuccine Alfredo is dangerous for your health.

Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes.