There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.

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.

Good aims not always make good books.

I have never yet figured out what to do about good advice that you get, and that you know right away would help you, but that you cannot follow.

Isn't that exactly the definition of biography? An artificial logic imposed on an 'incoherent succession of images'?

For my own part I am more interested in my work than its mere money value.

America is the new Roman Empire. Remember what happened to Rome.

The consumer is always right.

The smartest person in the room is never as smart as all the people in the room.

If you wear a suit, you can talk to anybody.

Most companies are built to execute today's business model, not discover tomorrow's.

I was getting frustrated with America. It's interesting how as simple a thing as, like, letting your hair grow longer changed in the world in those days.