Music at its essence is what gives us memories.
Two things are aesthetically perfect in the world - the clock and the cat.
Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.
There is a future that makes itself and a future we make. The real future is composed of both.
One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage.
People who are upset about something ruminate on it whenever they get a chance; they are constantly drawn back to their own unhappy tale as if it were a horror story left open on a table.
The most difficult thing in the world is to say thinkingly what everybody says without thinking.
It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God.
So what if I'm ninety-three? So what if I'm ancient and cranky and my body's a wreck? If they're willing to accept me and my guilty conscience, why the hell shouldn't I run away with the circus?
I think people are largely proud of being musically on the risk. Any time you talk to someone about music, I feel like everyone is kind of always underlining just, you know, how voracious their appetites for various things are.
Why don't we just buy one airplane and let the pilots take turns flying it.