All human beings are born entrepreneurs. Some get a chance to unleash that capacity. Some never got the chance, never knew that he or she has that capacity.
My mother says I have boring percussion.
I gave up music criticism because of the increasingly obvious conflict of interest. I couldn't say anything bad about the records when I might be meeting that person's manager backstage an hour later.
Serious music isn't listened to in a casual setting. You don't want to listen to that in headphones on the subway.
I think there is such a valid concept as "serious music," meaning that if you don't take it seriously, you don't get it all.
There's a whole kind of melancholy that you can only attain with reverb. That's an example of a technology introducing a whole new meaning.
The adventure is when people don't know what they're doing at all. Like, I think that the first pop band to use synthesizers as their main instrument and take it seriously was probably Silver Apples. And they sure didn't know what they were doing, and they sure don't sound like anything else.
Okay, so what we really have to recognize and own as Americans is that our way of being is itself perhaps the greatest threat to the continuation of civilization.
The most natural, and, consequently, the truest and most intense of the human affections are those which arise in the heart as if by electric sympathy.
I am in love with no other than myself, and my very separation is my union. . . I am my beloved and my lover; I am my knight and my maiden.
In one dancing saloon I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice: 'Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best. '