Music should be a collective magic and hysteria.

Music is a labyrinth with no beginning and no end, full of new paths to discover, where mystery remains eternal

Any musician who has not experienced - I do not say understood, but truly experienced - the necessity of dodecaphonic music is USELESS. For his whole work is irrelevant to the needs of his epoch.

It is not enough to deface the Mona Lisa because that does not kill the Mona Lisa. All art of the past must be destroyed.

For me, curiosity is life. If you are not curious, you are in your coffin.

More and more I find that in order to create effectively one has to consider delirium and, yes, organize it.

The aim of music is not to express feelings but to express music.

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.

Creation exists only in the unforeseen made necessary.

I suggested that it was not enough to add a moustache to the Mona Lisa: it should simply be destroyed.

We have to fight the past to survive.

Don't always use prudence for precaution, sometimes use it for progress.

This is the team. We're trying to go to the moon. If you can't put someone up, please don't put them down.

How "spiritual" you are has nothing to do with what you believe, but everything to do with your state of consciousness.

We do not know what is being done in our name. Worse, we do not ask.

I stay away from churches in which I feel like I have to pretend I'm a better person than I am. That sort of thing moves my faith backwards.

is there not an Arabick Proverb which goes, 'No one throws Stones at a Barren Tree'?

Can You see that as soon as the day breaks I think of You? As evening comes, I am near You. I am near You at every moment. I love You, Jesus!

There is enough oil in the ground to deep-fry the lot of us, and no obvious means to prevail upon governments and industry to leave it in the ground.

In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as Americans?

Well, I don't know that I'm OK any more than anybody else is OK but I've led at least a happy life and a very full one.