Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns.

Acceleration is finite, I think, according to some laws of physics.

The highest point of music for me is to become in a place where there is no desire, no craving, wanting to do anything else. It is the best place you have ever been, and yet there is nothing there.

The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.

It's not what happens to you in life that matters; what matters is how you deal with it!

We are either going to dissolve as a human race or we are going to break through into a new understanding of what it is to be a human being.

I had already done Rainbow in Curved Air and had a big record on CBS. I was launched to have a long career and then I just dropped out and went to India.

I was using tape loops for dancers and dance production. I had very funky primitive equipment, in fact technology wasn't very good no matter how much money you had.

It seems like we are moving towards something, some kind of point and it is probably going to be an important point in our development or dissolution. That is what everybody seems to be thinking.

Talking about the all night concerts, I did some of the first all night concerts back in the 60's with this little harmonium, and I also had saxophone taped delays.

Everyone seems to be in a kind of accelerated time mode that is beyond their own control.

It’s human nature to find patterns where there are none and to find skill where luck is a more likely explanation.

He doesn’t look like the kind of person that could kill anyone? She thought. - Immortal Door

Opinions become dangerous to a state only when persecution makes it necessary for the people to communicate their ideas under the bond of secrecy.

When you sympathize with a married woman you either make two enemies or gain one wife and one friend.

Fond man! though all the heroes of your line Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine In proud display; yet take this truth from me-- Virtue alone is true nobility!

My following is straight. I'm so glad.

We don't need youth museums but we do need holy young people.

Beware of anything that competes with your loyalty to Jesus Christ.

People throw rocks at things that shine.

Make an effort to serve good bread and good meat and not to sell the better wine so as to serve what is inferior.