People don't very much like things that are beautiful - they are so far from their nasty little minds.

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.

A house takes on the character of its inhabitants

Home is where you hange your memories. . . Home is where you begin again to dream again.

I'm not interested in one label or the other - I'm only interested in solving certain problems, in getting where I want to go.

Bob Dylan's first couple of records in the 60's weren't considered cover records, but he only wrote one or two original songs on each album.

Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn't have to invent a thing.

If you are completely comfortable with your life, and feeling absolutely no anxiety, then you are probably coasting, and not really growing.

When our commitment is diminished for any reason, part of the solution is repentance. Commitment and repentance are closely intertwined.

What comes up is not nearly as important as how you relate to what comes up.

We just were a band one day. We woke up and in the morning we were a band.

Being a student in an art & design school, that was the moment for me, that was when I began to develop a lot of self-confidence and really come into my own.