For years I said if I could only find a comfortable chair I would rival Mozart.

Music can imply the infinite if enough things depart from the norm far enough. Strange "abnormal" events can lead to the feeling that anything can happen, and you have a music with no boundaries.

The tragedy of music is that it begins with perfection.

We do not hear what we hear..., only what we remember.

The composer makes plans, music laughs.

Do we have anything in music that really wipes everything out? That just cleans everything away?

Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon.

Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures.

I never understood what rules I was supposed to learn, and what rules I was supposed to break

If you think you might have secret information listening to me, you're lost.

Compositionally I always wanted to be like Fred Astaire.

In life don't complain about anything ifyou're the reason for the outcome

I don't belong to anyone else but myself. I have to make my own decisions. Happiness is defined by me.

Veiling truth in mystery.

I want a woman who can go to the saloon with me, not hypocritical, fame seeking

There is no economic problem and, in a sense, there never has been.

Never say about anything, "I have lost it," but only "I have given it back." Is your child dead? It has been given back. Is your wife dead? She has been returned.

Food tells you everything about the way people live and who they are.

I think there's something fun about television where, as an actor, when you read the script each week, it's like how the audience experiences watching the show each week.

The fact that our largest presence in the world is our massive military is going to dictate how we engage with the world.

Practice patience; it is the essence of praise. Have patience, for that is true worship. No other worship is worth as much. Have patience; patience is the key to all relief.