Wine snobbery, of course, is part showmanship, part sophistication, part knowledge, and part bluff

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.

Life without music is unthinkable.

It is the artists of the world, the feelers and the thinkers who will ultimately save us; who can articulate, educate, defy, insist, sing and shout the big dreams.

The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second fiddle with enthusiasm

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.

A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers.

I can't live one day without hearing music, playing it , studying it , or thinking about it .

I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.

Believe and begin now.

Some things belong to the past.

They were too much to carryso i left them behindfor a new life, in a new placebut no one forgot who i wasi didn'tand neither did the people who watchthey watched for yearsthey watch now

The Word is alive. We have always known it. But it needs to be uttered, aloud or in the mind of a reader. Without a consciousness to tickle them into life, those books were dead.

I knew exactly what to do on Alien, it was funny.

A frame is the foundation from which everything evolves.

I think a lot of artists no longer want to participate in or be associated with narrative because of its corruptedness in contemporary culture.

The world is a possibility if only you'll discover it.

I want a life of good sport, good people and the competition that goes with it.

The essence of higher instrumental music lays herein that one is able to express in tones that what one is unable to say in words.