There is no room in music for the second-rate - it might just as well be the nineteenth-rate.

Music, being identical with heaven, isn't a thing of momentary thrills, or even hourly ones. It's a condition of eternity.

Failure is the most important part of an artist's training, and one you cannot afford to do without.

I’ve learned what ‘classical’ means. It means something that sings and dances through sheer joy of existence.

One of the advantages of being over forty is that one begins to learn the difference between knowing and realising.

Always ask for advice but never take it.

Music-making as a means of getting money is hell

The Heavenly Spheres make music for us, The Holy Twelve dance with us, All things join in the dance! Ye who dance not, know not what we are knowing.

If women are breadwinners and men bring home the bacon, why do people complain about having no dough? I'm confused. Also hungry.

Sometimes, the scales of justice find a level of their own, without our help... And sometimes, in seeking justice, we don't always serve it.

Before I can say anything, It dissolves in my throat And turns into tears.

Conventional words or other signs have to be sought for laboriously only in a second stage, where the associative play already referred to is sufficiently established and can be reproduced at will.

When you're trapped in a small town, the only excitement is the booze.

Wealth is a dangerous inheritance, unless the inheritor is trained to active benevolence.

There is only one sky and we must take care of it, for if it becomes sick, everything will come to an end.

In science, new ideas are at first completely neglected, later fiercely attacked, and finally regarded as well known.

Start the week with a striking indigo skirt paired with an embroidered suede moto jacket.

Alternative media is no longer really alternative, and we're no longer that dependant upon newspapers, like the Los Angeles Times, for our information.