When we are young, friends are, like everything else, a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them.

Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wantedto build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy and at home

I am sure my music has a taste of codfish in it.

Suddenly a mist fell from my eyes and I knew the way I had to take.

I have not the least doubt that school developed in me nothing but what was evil and left the good untouched.

In Bach, Beethoven and Wagner we admire principally the depth and energy of the human mind; in Mozart, the divine instinct.

A landscape, torn by mists and clouds, in which I can see ruins of old churches, as well as of Greek temples - that is Brahms.

Art doesn’t give rise to anything in us that isn’t already there. It simply stirs our curious consciousness and sparks a fire that illuminates who we have always wanted to be.

I would prefer to live with bleeding heart where desire see darkness of uncertainty because I need to know the existence of love

Back in those early days when I began my apprenticeship as a poet, I also tried to voice our anger, spirit of defiance and resistance in a Jamaican poetic idiom.

What began in deadly competition has helped us to see that global cooperation is the essential precondition for our survival. Travel is broadening. It's time to hit the road again.

Great fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create.

You don't have the bug, so go do what makes you happy.

The only thing I trust is silence. And I trust silence completely.

All the other industries will receive warmth and sustenance from khadi industry.

You have to allow your mind to create and then if you want to censor something and bring it down or point it in a different direction, then you can do it.

I think it's a meritorious action to become a monk, provided that your motivation is pure.