We have to fight the past to survive.

Music is a labyrinth with no beginning and no end, full of new paths to discover, where mystery remains eternal

Any musician who has not experienced - I do not say understood, but truly experienced - the necessity of dodecaphonic music is USELESS. For his whole work is irrelevant to the needs of his epoch.

It is not enough to deface the Mona Lisa because that does not kill the Mona Lisa. All art of the past must be destroyed.

For me, curiosity is life. If you are not curious, you are in your coffin.

More and more I find that in order to create effectively one has to consider delirium and, yes, organize it.

The aim of music is not to express feelings but to express music.

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.

Creation exists only in the unforeseen made necessary.

I suggested that it was not enough to add a moustache to the Mona Lisa: it should simply be destroyed.

All art of the past must be destroyed.

It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. It is not that I object to work

I would love to be a guest on a talk show or a panel that shows women who have been on reality shows who've had success, to prove to audiences that you don't have to be a fool to become successful.

Why are liberals who want the government to regulate their health care upset that the government wants to regulate their internet?

As chairman of the DNC, [Keith ] Ellison says he would replicate that kind of turnout on a national scale. But we spoke yesterday about some history that could stand in the way.

He winked at her. She giggled. And I threw up a little in my mouth

I do love science-fiction and horror movies.

I doubt I would have written a line ... unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.

When we are using this term 'basic goodness,' we are talking about our inherent completeness.

If we can teach people about wildlife, they will be touched. Share my wildlife with me. Because humans want to save things that they love.

Prose, narratives, etcetera, can carry healing. Poetry does it more intensely.