Since music has never had a Rembrandt, we have remained nothing more than musicians.

Music can imply the infinite if enough things depart from the norm far enough. Strange "abnormal" events can lead to the feeling that anything can happen, and you have a music with no boundaries.

The tragedy of music is that it begins with perfection.

We do not hear what we hear..., only what we remember.

The composer makes plans, music laughs.

Do we have anything in music that really wipes everything out? That just cleans everything away?

Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon.

Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures.

I never understood what rules I was supposed to learn, and what rules I was supposed to break

If you think you might have secret information listening to me, you're lost.

Compositionally I always wanted to be like Fred Astaire.

How do you get free of the damnable books of Romance when everybody else is still living in them?

I think I may have a future as a disembodied head.

Male friends do not always face each other; they stand side by side, facing the world.

Those cultural wars, Sexual Revolution issues are fading from the scene, and the coming generation has basically settled them.

Even Bill Clinton admitted Obamacare is the craziest thing in the world, where people wind up with their premiums doubled and their coverage cut in half.

Economics brings into full view that conflict of choice which is one of the permanent characteristics of human existence.

A real gentleman is as polite to a little girl as to a woman.

It's not a choice between war and peace. It's a choice between war and endless war. It's not appeasement. I think it's better even to call it American self-interest.

I dont get hung up about anything really.

A warrior does not beg for his life. ~Izuru Kira