The universe was born restless and has never since been still.
The present day composer refuses to die.
Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.
A man is culpable in the eyes of society when he escapes from the jurisdiction of its mediocrity.
I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.
I rather like a certain clumsiness in a work of art.
Of all the arts, music is the one communal art. It requires for its existence extensive cooperation and organization. . . Singing together the greatest choral music of all time is the surest way of developing in a community that sense of quality and reverence for beauty, which is the basis of a musical culture. . . Entertainment has its place in life just as candies and cocktails have, but health is not built on such a diet alone, nor culture exclusively on amusement.
American writers often say they find it difficult to write Superman. They say he's too powerful; you can't give him problems. But Superman is a metaphor. For me, Superman has the same problems we do, but on a Paul Bunyan scale. If Superman walks the dog, he walks it around the asteroid belt because it can fly in space. When Superman's relatives visit, they come from the 31st century and bring some hellish monster conqueror from the future. But it's still a story about your relatives visiting.
God pays twice as much attention on Christmas, like the media when a white kid goes missing.
I disagree very strongly with people saying "that battle is over. " If you've started a battle, I don't think it ever ends. The illusion that it's ended can reverse any good results that have come from it.
Even though the album is an endangered species, can we try and make a coherent and good one, even if it's like making a horse and cart at a Nascar conference?