Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence.

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.

There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.

Have a good looking is not worthy if you don't act just like your appearances.

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

When God wants to bring more power into our lives., He brings more pressure. He is generating spiritual force by friction.

We must get over wanting to be needed.

I obviously use computers. My car is wondrous. My phone is amazing. I've already talked about the music I'm digitizing. Technology is fantastic, of course.

Life is much more complex than the black-and-white sound bites that you get on television. There are nuances and shades of gray.

I like that New York sensibility where you can be edgy, but still super-glamorous.

In fact perhaps the only law in biology is that all flesh is mortal and all species become extinct eventually.

Fishing can come as close to doing nothing as anything I can think of.