When I decided to go to a country that subsidized music, I went to the Soviet Union for two years.
I want a very ordered image, but I want it to come about by chance.
The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
You have got to be willing to be poor as an entrepreneur.
There are dangers for an artist in any academic environment. Academia rewards people who know their own minds and have developed an ironclad confidence in speaking them. That kind of assurance is death for an artist.
All art emulates the condition of ritual. That is what it comes from and to that it must always return for nourishment.
Yes, we three were so happy, my wife, my guitar and me!