Cool, logical, big-eared and level-headed, the center of Star Trek's optimistic, inclusive vision of humanity's future. I loved Spock.
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
Music comes from the heart and returns to the heart. . . music is spontaneous, impulsive expression. . . its range is without limit. . . forever growing. . . can be one element to help us build a new conception of life in which the madness and cruelty of wars will be replaced by a simple understanding of the brotherhood of man.
Conscience is that which hurts when everything else feels marvelous.
I simply make music, and people have always been foolish enough to pay me for it. I never told them that I would have done it all for nothing.
Music can be all things to all persons. It is like a great dynamic sun in the center of a solar system which sends out its rays and inspiration in every direction. . . . Music makes us feel that the heavens open and a divine voice calls. Something in our souls responds and understands.
I believe in a passionately strong feeling for the poetry of life - for the beautiful, the mysterious, the romantic, the ecstatic - the loveliness of Nature, the lovability of people, everything that excites us, everything that starts our imagination working, LAUGHTER, gaiety, strength, heroism, love, tenderness, every time we see - however dimly - the godlike that is in everyone and want to kneel in reverence.
It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force than the minds of a single village.
My mom used to get involved with the Black Panther activities in Los Angeles. For me it was more about how to view my consciousness on these issues with a biblical framework.
I thought I could, and thought I would, swim a lot quicker - much quicker.
I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you're trying to do?