We know others to the extent that we know ourselves.

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.

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

There's not one good thought in that place. There's nothing but waste and want. I can feel his selfish cravings and an abyss of secrets I hope to never know.

A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they're stuck in that safe place.

I did standup while still working for Johnny Carson in the mid-'60s, thus gaining the advantage of at least getting laughs from him about how I hadn't the night before.

Take away God and religion, and men live to no purpose, without proposing any worthy end of life to themselves.

Think about everything that you hear, feel everything that you see, love everything that is worthy of love.

I have all the equipment to be a politician. Total shamelessness. But it's lucky I never ran. In the years from [Joseph] McCarthy to now, I would have either been destroyed or reduced.

One should not withdraw from individuals and commit to the community what they can accomplish by their own enterprise and industry

Whether you accept or reject it, God's Love for you is permanent.

I grew up in Rhodesia on my father's ranch and every year he used to take us on safari in some remote area of the wilderness.

My brother has ADD, which is weird because he drives a Ford Focus. I told my brother that joke but he didn't laugh because he got distracted by my shoe strings.