Stand up and take your dissonance like a man.

The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.

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

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?

You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.

The life of truth is cold.

What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.

to travel faster than a speeding bullet is not much help if you and it are heading straight towards each other

The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.

Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well with others.

Film becomes a living organism. After awhile, it begins to tell you what it needs and you're usually best listening.

You have to have spent the night at sea, sitting in a life raft and looking at your watch, to know that the night is immeasurably longer than the day.

The best way to catch my attention is to throw a Twinkie near my face.

Greatness is in not what you do but how you are an instrument in the hands of God.

If I were not French I would choose to be - Scotch.