One day, a daughter of Aristotle, Pythias by name, was asked what color pleased her most. She replied, "The color with which modesty suffuses the face of simple, inoffensive men.
I play music because I love it and I'll keep playin' till I'm old.
People say to me 'You've changed. ' and I say 'Haven't you?' People change, it's just life.
Sometimes Lennon needed McCartney and sometimes Simon needed Garfunkel. You'd go mad doing everything on your own.
As a songwriter, it's very hard to listen to music that's not coming from the heart and soul, personally.
If a song is longer than three and a half minutes, itll need something to keep you entertained.
I would love to have been born in the 60s.
The simple equations that generate the convoluted Mandelbrot fractal have been called the wittiest remarks ever made.
The Jackdaw sat in the Cardinal's chair! Bishop and Abbot and Prior were there, Many a monk and many a friar, Many a knight and many a squire, With a great many more of lesser degree,-- In sooth a goodly company; And they served the Lord Primate on bended knee. Never, I ween, Was a prouder seen, Read of in books or dreamt of in dreams, Than the Cardinal Lord Archbishop of Rheims.
I want to become less and less about the laptop. That's what's lovely about an orchestra - the physicality, the way every gesture relates to something you're hearing.
My dad's Russian. My mother's English. I would say my bottom half is Russian.