Music is the cup that holds the wine of silence. Sound is that cup, but empty. Noise is that cup, but broken.

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Quiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence.

If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on?

Usually people think that it is the musicians who create the music, but in fact it is music who creates the musicians.

What has changed in 40 years? It’s very simple: 40 years ago there was a market economy. Today there is a market society – today everything, including ethics, has a price.

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

Understanding is simple. Knowing is complicated.

I'm not really interested in music. Music is just a means of creating a magical state.

Music so wishes to be heard that it sometimes calls on unlikely characters to give it voice.

We know others to the extent that we know ourselves.

We donot qualify as humans going by our acts, but we surely prove through our vulnerability and sufferings!

If killing yourself is not an option anymore, you have to sink into the darkness instead, and make something out of it.

Being crazy, for the rest of us, is a form of sanity.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself

Don't retire, rewire and refire

God doesn't want your leftovers. God wants your love overtures, your first-overs, because He is your first love.

We have a lot of friends, but not among the governments - the friends are in the peoples. And in the last instance the peoples will be the rulers of those states.

My past identity separates from me and remains in the past; he becomes someone else. Is memory really as insubstantial as the fragments of information that we store in our heads?

Journalists say that when a dog bites a man, that is not news, but when a man bites a dog, that is news ... Thanks to the mathematics of combinatorics, we will never run out of news.

It would have been very easy for me to put on a little tight skirt and go out and try what I always call the Barbie doll roles.