My God! What has sound got to do with music?

The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.

The possibilities of percussion sounds, I believe, have never been fully realized

Stand up and take your dissonance like a man.

Please don't try to make things nice! All the wrong notes are right. Just copy as I have -- I want it that way.

Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth.

I don't write music for sissy ears.

If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven.

But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.

A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens... if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly... to scale mountains that are not there, who shall stop it?

Is not beauty in music too often confused with something which lets the ears lie back in an easy chair?

Today is sacred - for it will never come again. What could be more important than living this day with attention and the intention to be of benefit, to the best of your ability, to all you encounter?

The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around.

Advertising beauty products is easy. All you have to do is revile your customers by creating a disease called getting older, and then provide a remedy which does not work.

Expose yourself to aloneness. When a person is left alone, he starts thinking of higher reality - about death, life, soul, God and the mystery of all.

Learn to take rejection, keep fit and work only with the best in your field.

The singular sign of a parent who is doing their job is their unwillingness to let their children watch the Star Wars prequels.

It's not imperative that I graduate in four years, and it's not imperative that I get all A's.

Employees, especially young people, want more than a paycheck.

All that prosthetic makeup drains you. By the time it's lunch, you're done.

I might not know where you are or what you are doing right now, but if you hear my voice will you come to me?