The word 'beauty' is as easy to use as the word 'degenerate.' Both come in handy when one does or does not agree with you

The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.

The possibilities of percussion sounds, I believe, have never been fully realized

Stand up and take your dissonance like a man.

Please don't try to make things nice! All the wrong notes are right. Just copy as I have -- I want it that way.

Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth.

I don't write music for sissy ears.

If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven.

But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.

A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens... if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly... to scale mountains that are not there, who shall stop it?

Is not beauty in music too often confused with something which lets the ears lie back in an easy chair?

Men (who cheat) do not cheat because they are dogs. They are (regarded as) dogs because they cheat.

How may I hate that which I love with such intensity of passion? How should I abhor that for which my every drop of blood is boiling?

No matter how bright your future seems you can never forget about the past”.

Words have power. Words created this universe... Everything started with the Word. The Bible says, In the beginning was the word. In the same way, your words have creative power.

To acknowledge our faults when we are blamed, is modesty; to discover them to one's friends in ingenuousness, is confidence; but to preach them to all the world, if one does not take care, is pride.

There's people that like you and there's people that don't like you. I love it because I love the negative criticism because I always feel I have something to prove.

First, define your credo- the belief system of the organization. Secondly, define your real ambition, or where do you want to go as a collective community.

[It's] useful to ask ourselves, 'Just how global are we?' before we think about where we go from here.

All I do is stay in the kitchen and cook. I don't go there to party.

In this case, the particle formed has correspondingly less energy, whereas the product nucleus passes into the ground state with emission of the quantity of energy saved as gamma radiation.