Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.

There is nothing more musical than a sunset.

But music, don't you know, is a dream from which the veils have been lifted. It's not even the expression of a feeling, it's the feeling itself.

Music is the space between the notes.

Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art.

Music begins where words are powerless to express. Music is made for the inexpressible. I want music to seem to rise from the shadows and indeed sometimes to return to them.

Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.

[on Richard Wagner] A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.

I am more and more convinced that music is not, in essence, a thing which can be cast into a traditional and fixed form. It is made up of colors and rhythms.

Listen to no one's advice except that of the wind in the trees. That can recount the whole history of mankind.

I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.

The cell door opened. My hands went to my eyes. Why was the door opened? I wasn’t dead yet. I think.

The stalkers can get a little scary at times, but I guess all these things are a part of being famous.

Certainly there is no contending against the Will of God; but still there is some difficulty in ascertaining, and applying it, to particular cases.

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

It's the business that you guys are in too. We try to get as much information as we can and make the best decisions that we can for the football team.

I don't care who gets in my way... I'm just gonna come right though and riot.

Always think outside the box and embrace opportunities that appear, wherever they might be.

"I don't like it" or "I like it". This sentence must go away from your tongue. Likes and dislikes are only for people who have limited vision. You should learn to appreciate.

I keep calling it the I-thought. It's a thought. There is no I. This gives you a clue.

I get a lot more abuse in England. That's just a general English attitude. I did the same thing to famous people. It's just your instinct.