When you make music you are acting as a philosopher. You can either do that consciously or you can do it unconsciously, but you're doing it.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

Everything you do is music, and everywhere is the best seat.

The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.

The world is no longer a romantic place; some of its people still are however, and therein lies the promise. Don't let the world win.

It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

I have nothing to say, and I am saying it.

Good music can act as a guide to good living.

Look at everything. Don't close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see.

Sin is a fundamental failure to rejoice in what we should rejoice in.

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I'm right next to two beautiful women right now, so I'm going to sit right back down.

What if someone gave a war & Nobody came? / Life would ring the bells of Ecstasy and Forever be Itself again.

My reason for choosing diamonds is that, dense as they are, they represent the greatest worth in the smallest volume.

There is no such thing as an unmusical person.

I'm not sure if the shame/guilt distinction resonates for me. I just know that shame is a debilitating emotion that is perpetuated by Church and State.

You dont lose if you get knocked down; you lose if you stay down.

You can pretty much do it with anything. You can tell your life story with all the jeans you've worn, or every pair of shoes you've owned.

A lot of celebrities just want money, fame, power, fancy cars, houses all over the world and have people BOW DOWN to them. To me, that's frightful behaviour.