Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.

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.

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.

All art of the past must be destroyed.

Capture my heart and my mind. Become my ultimate challenge, greatest vexation, strongest desire, and most precious blessing.

Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different!

Don’t become so impatient that you end up moving before your time & miss open doors & new opportunities. Let God direct your steps.

People define you based on what you value...

There's no bad consequence to loving fully, with all your heart. You always gain by giving love.

It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.

By engaging someone for five minutes, you can make them a lifelong fan.

A Christian is one who rejoices in the superiority of a rival.

Of course many bars in Manhasset, like bars everywhere, were nasty places, full of pickled people marinating in regret.

The inner world: those spiritual apartments to which we are reluctant to admit strangers.