Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide..

I do have a ridiculously high hedonic set-point.

Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that..

For us the most important thing is to be visual, and for the cats watching us to have fun. This is all we want. We get very upset if people get bored….

The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill is cordial speech..

Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education..

Music is everything that one listens to with the intention of listening to music..

But I don't believe in organised politics, organised religion, organised music, organised anything..

One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange..

Not too slow, not too fast. Kind of like half-fast..

Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of t….

The bar... is an exercise in solitude. Above all else, it must be quiet, dark, very comfortable-and, contrary to modern mores, no music of any kind, ….

I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere..

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche commenting on the music of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. I….

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affectin….

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all….

The Strat covers the complete spectrum of human emotion .. the tremolo enables you to do anything - you can hit any note known to mankind.

As far as music school goes, I walked through Berkelee one time..

Philosophy is the highest music..

jazz is the expression of America's romantic self, its sensual potency, its lyrical force..

Music is the application of sounds to the canvas of silence..