I'm not really interested in music. Music is just a means of creating a magical state.

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Quiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence.

If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on?

Usually people think that it is the musicians who create the music, but in fact it is music who creates the musicians.

What has changed in 40 years? It’s very simple: 40 years ago there was a market economy. Today there is a market society – today everything, including ethics, has a price.

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

Understanding is simple. Knowing is complicated.

Music so wishes to be heard that it sometimes calls on unlikely characters to give it voice.

We know others to the extent that we know ourselves.

Expectation closes the door to what is happening in the moment.

The more you learn to forgive others

If a man has directed his course to great ends there is compensation even in ruin.

Selfless love is always costly; fear can't afford it, pride doesn't understand it and friends never forget it.

I thought that culture and education are the shield. An educated person cannot do certain things and, and be educated, you cannot, and there they were, killing children day after day.

If you know what a man's doing, get in front of him; but if you want to guess what he's doing keep behind him.

I'm a cowboy who never saw a cow.

I must reclaim my good life and I must return to my good works.

That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.

The thing I liked about writing about food when I started it was that I felt I was writing about food in a different way. Not like a food writer.

Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies... To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.