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The Quartets have been a major part of my work.
I am tired of always dying with a broken heart.
I'm a revolutionary, money means nothing to me.
Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity.
It is better to invert reality than to copy it.
Broadway is intimidating. Don't think it's not.
You sittin' here chained to your rockin' chair.
And we'll never be as young as we are right now
When we separate music from life we get is art.
My work became an exploration of non-intention.
I wish that person outside would stop coughing.
...we can all shut-up and go back to our caves.
We get the job done. So what happens if we win?
There is a drunkenness to grief, which is good.
I try to schedule the Intensives wherever I go.
I like the plot of The Nutcracker - not at all.
My fatherland has always the first claim on me.
Why is Schoenberg's Music so Hard to Understand?
Lucidity is the first purpose of color in music.
It's ecstasy when you're laying down next to me.
A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.
The end of all good music is to affect the soul.
It's delightful, it's delicious, it's de-lovely.
Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn't do nothing.
I want you for always...days, years, eternities.
Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.
Give me a laundry-list and I'll set it to music.
Music-making as a means of getting money is hell
Life's too short to spend with important people.
Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin.
Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.
A band is only as good as its euphonium section.
The opposite of war is not peace, it's creation.
Art demands of us that we shall not stand still.
To me the highest thing, after God, is my honor.
I play guitar because it lets me dream out loud.
I remain a humanist. We are a very curious race.
False notes can be forgiven, false music cannot.
Birds are the first and the greatest performers.
Music should be a collective magic and hysteria.
I've experienced as much fame as I ever want to.
I take all of my music seriously and personally.
Only love with its science makes us so innocent.
The search is more important than the destination
I think the concept of the sea is very important.
My music is not modern, it is merely badly played
Silence is the pause in me when I am near to God.
One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.
I produce music as an apple tree produces apples.
I don't think you can ever regain your ignorance.