Truth implies meaning.

It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts.

Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique.

Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist.

It is the element I miss in electronic music - no performance, no loving immersion. Maybe that is why I was never particularly drawn to electronic music.

Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy.

Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.

I strongly suggest that we play down basics like who influenced whom, and instead study the way the influence is transformed, in other words: how the artist made it his own.

There is another interesting paradox here: by immersing ourselves in what we love, we find ourselves. We do not lose ourselves. One does not lose one's identity by falling in love.

Any creator owes a debt to past creation.

The fact that Stravinsky used the classics as a major influence is obvious. What is interesting is how he used them, how he turned Bach into Stravinsky.

Hanging around people you’re smarter than is good for your ego. Hanging around people who are smarter than you is good for your intellect.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere - Carl Sagan

The highest happiness on earth exists in the donation of self for the betterment of others.

The discovery and investigation of life on other planets is likely to change many of our ideas about how life arose on the Earth and even what is life and its natural development.

I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.

I love to take things that are everyday and comforting and make them into the most luxurious things in the world.

Obedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity.

We believe in the wisdom once expressed by the hockey star Wayne Gretzky, who explained his success by saying, 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.'

We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves.

The society is the extension of the individual. If the individual is greedy, cruel, merciless, egoistic, etc. so it will be the society.