People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts.

There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience.

Music is meaningless noise unless it touches a receiving mind.

Your task it is, amid confusion, rush, and noise, to grasp the lasting, calm and meaningful, and finding it anew, to hold and treasure it.

The reactions music evokes are not feelings, but they are the images, memories of feelings.

There are only twelve tones and they need to be treated carefully.

Tonality is a natural force, like gravity.

My God, how can anyone ever be a master of music?

Our sacrosanct obligation is to tend to our own personal wounds and furiously love the entire world irrespective if the world loves us back.

If we should promise people nothing better than only revolution they would scratch their heads and say 'Isn't it better to have good goulash?'

I do not regard it as wrong to take my life, because I simply change my place of residence and go where my wife and baby are.

And my husband and I have been together for 10 years, so I guess people felt a part of it and it makes me feel really good

One-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance.

Peculiar as I was, and remain, I was trained to be practical. I'm still amazed at the radical temerity of my friends, you included, Julie, who choose poetry as their vocation. I envy your faith.

The main character and the most important character are not always the same person - you have to know the difference.

I'm all right. I'm good. There has been better times, but I'll be okay.

I grew up watching stand-ups and thought it was so entertaining and unique - you didn’t see that as a job description anywhere.

Some people see what they want to see.