Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.

Which is more musical: a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?

There was a German philosopher who is very well known, his name was Immanuel Kant, and he said there are two things that don’t have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter. Don’t have to mean anything that is, in order to give us deep pleasure.

I remember loving sound before I ever took a music lesson. And so we make our lives by what we love.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

People who aren't artists often feel that artists are inspired. But if you work at your art you don't have time to be inspired.