With music you can express any emotion, you can paint pictures.

The possible has been tried and failed. Now it's time to try the impossible.

Where human eyes have never seen, where human beings have never been, I build a world of abstract dreams, and I wait for you.

The real aim of music is to co-ordinate the minds of the people into an intelligent reach for a better world and an intelligent approach to the living future.

The planet is asleep and it's the fault of musicians who are untrue to themselves.

Art does not begin with imitation, but with discipline.

A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.

Well, actually, I'm a psychic being, and you know, we don't concern ourselves with being born; we concern ourselves with being eternal; we deal with the spirit.

The light of the future casts the shadows of tomorrow.

If you’re not mad at the world, you don’t have what it takes

The outer space beings are my brothers. They sent me here. They already know my music.

Jesus--if Kilgore Trout could only write!" Rosewater exclaimed. He had a point: Kilgore Trout's unpopularity was deserved. His prose was frightful. Only his ideas were good.

I've about decided that's the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you're a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.

Either way, you are in charge. Jealousy works against you. It takes control away from you, hands it over to the opposition. Maintain control.

Basically speaking, conducting is quite a healthy profession.

Late afternoon on the West Coast ends with the sky doing all its brilliant stuff.

Being humble matters.

My varnashram dharma teaches me that there must be some significance in the fact of my being born in India instead of in Europe.

The Haiti that has been waiting for help and not moving no longer exists. Enough handouts; we need hands up. Enough aid; we need trade.

My uncle is from Argentina, so I grew up hearing Spanish. My Spanish isn't very good, but my pronunciation isn't terrible.