What right do I have to be in the woods, if the woods are not in me.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

Everything you do is music, and everywhere is the best seat.

The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.

The world is no longer a romantic place; some of its people still are however, and therein lies the promise. Don't let the world win.

It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

I have nothing to say, and I am saying it.

Good music can act as a guide to good living.

Look at everything. Don't close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see.

I know my sister like I know my own mind, you will never find anyone as trusting or as kind.

Dream of dreamers!

Pollution in your mind will make your heart BLACK...

It has occurred to me more than once that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.

I don't drink no whiskey but I'm a fool about my home made wine. I stays around Dallas cause I makes it there all the time

Who you are and who you love should never be a fireable offense

Positive thought expands the halo of mind energy.

Thoughts of your mind have made you what you are and thoughts of your mind will make you what you become from this day forward.

I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.

I want to change peoples' minds about music, I want to bring the really brutal experimental stuff to peoples' attention.