I'd always thought Cage's 'Root of an Unfocus' would be great in a movie.
The good thing about working alone is I get a lot done and I can experiment more. The bad thing is I miss out on the gregarious, social way that most musicians work.
The main thing that excites me and makes me want to get out of bed is the thought of being able to go into my studio to work on music.
The reason I didn't like cocaine is it made me do stupid things, have stupid conversations, and stay awake until 11 o'clock in the morning unable to think, read, sleep or speak.
And if we obey God, we must disobey ourselves, and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.
I've had my Charlie Sheen moments, it was usually just at the Mars Bar on the corner of First Avenue with me and a few homeless guys.
Basically we should stop doing those things that are destructive to the environment, other creatures, and ourselves and figure out new ways of existing.
So many of us, myself included, need to keep our sense of personal outrage in check. Each human beings position on the planet is one of intense humility.
The greatest danger to an adequate old-age security plan is rising prices. A rise of 2% a year in prices would cut the purchasing power of pensions about 45% in 30 years. The greatest danger of rising prices is from wages rising faster than output per man-hour. . . . Whether the nation succeeds in providing adequate security for retired workers depends in large measure upon the wage policies of trade unions.
Primitivism has become the vulgar cliché of much modern art and speculation.
You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.