The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.

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.

Thane had never been one of the idealists

Walking by yourself in the rain is for college kids who think loneliness makes poets.

An uneasy past often builds the strongest and finest people.

All history is a lie!

I am sworn to uphold the Constitution as Andy Johnson understands it and interprets it.

Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital.

The greatest thing my father left me was a love for cutting wood - my love for sawing, especially pine wood.

And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

Trust is precious and easily wasted, and guessing is a lousy foundation for future progress.

Barcelona is always a club that, at the beginning of the season, wants to win everything. I will try my best to do that with them and I'm sure I will help as much as I can.