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

Music is the wine that fills the cup 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.

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

An environment of infinite economic expansion is unsustainable in a world of finite resources.

Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.

Knowledge breeds doubt, not certainty, And the more we know the more uncertain we become.

Prayer concerns God, whose purposes and plans are conditioned on prayer. His will and His glory are bound up in praying.

Next to the Bible, nature is to be our great lesson book.

The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.

Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.

I let my music do the talking. Ain't no TV show gonna help me. Ain't no hit single gon help me sell no records.

Stuff that I write isn't as similar to the stuff that I'm in, but I don't really care, I just do comedy.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.