The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.

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.

If we know who we are and have gone through a process of self-identification in accordance with the creator’s plan, we will no longer undervalue ourselves or be afraid

Stories help us remember what we never want to forget.

All our tastes are but reminiscences.

What's the best way of communicating in the world today? Television? No. Telegraph? No. Telephone? No. Tell a woman.

For years everyone looked toward the demise of radio when television came along. Before that, they thought talking movies might eliminate radio as well. But radio just keeps getting stronger.

I don't come from money or an educated family background or any sort of supportive family life, so all of my choices are made on my own.

We have, instead (of soot and dirt), disorganization. We have this proliferation of goods. It's the disease of the time.

Wit, without wisdom, is salt without meat; and that is but a comfortless dish to set a hungry man down to.

One of the things that happens to people in grief is they secretly think they're crazy, because they realize they are thinking things that don't make sense.

I can see that one can never pay back Gilsa for the fear that she will give again.