Some people take music too seriously, and some don't take it seriously enough, others take it just right.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

Everything you do is music, and everywhere is the best seat.

The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.

The world is no longer a romantic place; some of its people still are however, and therein lies the promise. Don't let the world win.

It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

I have nothing to say, and I am saying it.

Good music can act as a guide to good living.

Look at everything. Don't close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see.

In the arena of life, so many lessons are taught but few are taken and few are applied

You're my mirror image? No, I don't think so. I'm I. And you're you. & together, we are inseparable.

I don't have the Tom Hanks fans. When you make the kind of movies I make, you get weird letters from people.

Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.

The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible.

[Gore] tended to drone on and on, in singsong, narcotizing cadences best endured by the heavily caffeinated.

I went to graduate school at Harvard for one year I worked in the state legislature in Sacramento for one year. I taught school in Compton for two years.

There are some people that we didn't forget, but we don't smile any more when they're mentioned.

Going to college and living with someone of another race gave me a different view of what people have to go through.

The kind of values for which I was supposed to kill, such as democracy and national independence, were better served, I thought, through non-violent action.