Performance is a vehicle for entering different worlds of experiencing.

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.

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

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.

My prayer is simple my dear one, my dear one. May you never need understand. My prayer is for peacetime, my child, my child. Live it well and this life can be grand.

There was no one to blame but the mighty, ruthless stranger. Thus was complexity reduced to demonology, which is a defining feature of anti-Americanism, anti-Semitism, or, indeed, any "anti-ism.

I'm a bit hyperactive as an actor, I like to keep moving.

Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?

They talke of Christmas so long, that it comes.

I can't understand it. I can't even understand the people who can understand it.

They can see their neighbors. Roosters and dogs can be heard from there. Still, they will age and die without visiting one another.

Come oh come ye tea-thirsty restless ones -- the kettle boils, bubbles and sings, musically.

(Sarah Palin's) greatest hypocrisy is in her pretense that she is a woman.

The pure products of America go crazy--mountain folk from Kentucky or the ribbed north end of Jersey with its isolate lakes and valleys, its deaf-mutes, thieves.