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

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?

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.

Expectation closes the door to what is happening in the moment.

It takes just one idea or act to connect the dots between hard work and success... Don’t relent until you find it

Sometimes the comfort of being in a relationship lulls you into mundane complacency

My heart is beating like it's lonely, like there's nothing else inside of me.

Even in the wood, there was a right road and a wrong one. All the most terrifying fairy tales inevitably began with some foolish innocent (or two) straying from the path. Then anything might happen.

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

I have done my time living on the run. I'm British and I want to come home.

Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower.

I wake the dead. I bring Jackie Robinson and the Roosevelts to life. Who do you think Im trying to wake up?

Talkin bout money we could have a conversation Top five tax bracket in the population

These are not free men in any rational and exact sense of the word.