For the man of talent affects to call his transgressions of the laws of sense trivial and to count them nothing considerd with his devotion to his art.

The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.

The possibilities of percussion sounds, I believe, have never been fully realized

Stand up and take your dissonance like a man.

Please don't try to make things nice! All the wrong notes are right. Just copy as I have -- I want it that way.

Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth.

I don't write music for sissy ears.

If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven.

But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.

A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens... if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly... to scale mountains that are not there, who shall stop it?

Is not beauty in music too often confused with something which lets the ears lie back in an easy chair?

Whenever you take a step forward you are bound to disturb something.

I've learned a lot about my game every time I play golf in a men's event.

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

Some people pursue unhappiness because happiness is too mild a sensation.

Why won't you run in the rain and play, let the tears splash all over you?

Kind words toward those you daily meet, Kind words and actions right, Will make this life of ours most sweet, Turn darkness into night.

I always find the most depressing stuff most interesting.

I thought again how odd it was to be on formal terms with someone you had once permitted to lick your ears.

I love myself, the way I look, my body, but sometimes I can't help but feel insecure.

Also see how many quarters of corn you will spend in a week in dispensable bread, how much in alms.