Use your ears to record and your eyes to video.

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Quiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence.

If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on?

Usually people think that it is the musicians who create the music, but in fact it is music who creates the musicians.

What has changed in 40 years? It’s very simple: 40 years ago there was a market economy. Today there is a market society – today everything, including ethics, has a price.

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

Understanding is simple. Knowing is complicated.

I'm not really interested in music. Music is just a means of creating a magical state.

Music so wishes to be heard that it sometimes calls on unlikely characters to give it voice.

We know others to the extent that we know ourselves.

I know that your time is very precious, I am also a prince, we will not meet again and again

Injuries may be forgiven but not forgotten.

I think the human race doesn't have a future if it doesn't go into space.

Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.

I think any self-respecting educational institution ought to judge its policies by its best estimate of what their long-term consequences for their students and for the society will be.

I've lived in the same place in London for the last seven years, I go and get my shopping, I get on buses, and [all the rest] is pretty much outside of who I am.

Nicholas Anelka - 24 years of age but he's been around a lot longer than that

You can live in the same city your entire life and still be completely a foreigner when you step out, in your old age, onto the street.

Your faith will grow only in the measure that you give it away.

Life is not all about profundity. Life is about little things that piss you off, little triumphs, little defeats. So, you can't spend all your time being profound.