I cannot give you the formula for success but I can give you the formula for failure which is-try to please everybody.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

Formula for failure: Try to please everybody.

The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair.

The secret of a successful newspaper is to take one story each day and bang the hell out of it. Give the public what it wants to have and part of what it ought to have whether it wants it or not.

Don't forget that the only two things people read in a story are the first and last sentences. Give them blood in the eye on the first one.

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

I cannot give you the formula for success but I can give you the formula for failure: try to please everybody.

I cannot give you the formula for success but I can give you the formula for failure which is - try to please everybody.

Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.

It's hard being quiet when one's imagination is so loud

Maximum Rocknroll didn't have a map section. How was I supposed to know that Berkeley was not a neighborhood of San Francisco?

I went to prison, I paid my bill.

If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, and a sign on it saying, "End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE TO NOT TOUCH," the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.

Philosophizing means, then, to ascend from public dogma to essentially private knowledge.

You must channel your energy towards what you love, for what you love is the foundation of your life.

I think there is no culture in which music is not very important and central. That's why I think of us as a sort of musical species.

One cannot evolve from one's robothood until one realizes how totally one has been robotized.

There may be something good in silence. It's a brand new thing. You can hear the funniest little discussions, if you keep turning the volume down. Shut yourself up, and listen out loud.