I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way

Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like

I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages.

If you can make art with sound, can't you make music with objects?

Eye was a great discovery. He is one of the great vocalists of all time.

We're not on the outside looking in, we're on the outside looking out.

I'm constantly tortured, and that's why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies.

I feel like there are messages. I feel like there are angels. I feel that there is a legacy and an energy. And I feel that it's possible to tap into that.

It's a matter of keeping people on a spontaneous edge.

You need to believe in something that's bigger than yourself. I think that's what everybody wants to believe in that.

One of the reasons I started Tzadik, which is my own label, is to keep things in print. I got tired of labels dropping things out of print when they don't sell.

It is an extravagant gesture, ' she said, turning to the torpedo, 'which is just the sort of gesture I like.

Those who would abuse your trust for their own benefit can do it well, but only one time.

God give me work till my life shall end And life till my work is done.

Everything about everybody was very soon known by everybody else.

Sometimes I feel like I was born in the wrong year - I think it would have been cool to be alive in the '60s.

The American Dream is a term that is often used but also often misunderstood. It isn't really about becoming rich or famous. It is about things much simpler and more fundamental than that.

Probably nothing that we have ever managed to do quite equals the basic undermining of the physical stability of the planet on which most of the world's poor people depend.

An Airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

I began coming to Paris in the 1960s when I was told audiences here liked my work. More than 20 of my plays have been produced in Paris, and several have had long runs and have returned in revivals.

We have come to the point at which there is no other way than to bring about a 'movement' not to bring anything about