On those who overanalyze his music: When you tear the wings off a butterfly, it is no longer a butterfly

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.

Her mother and memory lapses were BFFs.

There are two hedges I know of; one is cash and the other is knowledge.

No battle was ever won according to plan, but no battle was ever won without one.

Once the truth is denied to human beings, it is pure illusion to try to set them free. Truth and freedom either go together hand in hand or together they perish in misery.

I have this very strange sensitive skin. If I put anything on it but this one product, it erupts into a rash.

I worked for Sam Peckinpah on quite a bit of action in his films, and he got excited once in a while.

Necessity is God's veil.

To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting cred

But I am a just man, even to my enemy - and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them

Donghae always act cute. Not that he's pretending but he is naturally cute.