I'm outside the music I've made. I have no interest in it.

Shiva danced the world into existence... that's a very nice thought.

The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.

Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

I remain a humanist. We are a very curious race.

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.

I've seldom become nostalgic or settled.

The Greek sculptor - I don't think he was very different from any of us.

I think we're all pretty odd.

Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.

When you love someone, you end up caring about each and every person they love. When you hate someone, you end up caring about every single person who hates them.

Home wasn't built in a day.

When we can sing in the face of death, we can sing in the face of anything.

The lion is ashamed, it's true, when he hunts with the fox.

Beethoven concertos ... Tchaicovsky concertos ... with a lot of these wonderful masterpieces there's always something wonderful to find ... there's always something new to find.

Most of my movies get about a third raves, a third vicious attacks, and a third in-between.

I've been around a while. I kinda know these things.

It is much better to tempt fortune where it can favor you than to see your certain ruin by not tempting it.

The Internet is an élite organization; most of the population of the world has never even made a phone call.

The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are, --/ Never read a book that is not a year old./ Never read any but the famed books./ Never read any but what you like.