Words are a distraction to enlightenment. Getting rid of conceptual thinking means enlightenment.
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
It is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism--Pop Art, eighteen-hour slices-of-reality films, musique concrete--opposes. But instead of bringing art and reality closer together, the new movement merely thins out the distinction.
The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.
A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street any more without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.
My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
We need a smaller and elite military, as [Donald]Rumsfeld said - and also a smaller and elite foreign policy.
But sometimes you can't figure everything out because you can't ever really understand other people. You can't understand why they do what they do. You just have to accept a little mystery, Ben. People are mysterious, the world is mysterious. You can't know everything. You're not supposed to. This isn't a history book. It's just the world. It's a messy place.
The reason that you dance and sing is to make the audience feel like they're dancing and singing. As long as you're having fun with it and giving it 100 percent, they're gonna feel that.
Love is the root of creation; God's essence; worlds without number Lie in his bosom like children; he made them for this purpose only. Only to love and to be loved again.