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The human voice is the most perfect instrument of all.
There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.
People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.
I liked the opera very much. Everything but the music.
The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.
It was great fun, But it was just one of those things.
No one really understands the grief or joy of another.
Life is a lot like jazz. It's best when you improvise.
Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America.
Writing music is not so much inspiration as hard work.
How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.
Hip-hop has always been chronologically misunderstood.
What is best in music is not to be found in the notes.
My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
I'm convinced that the earth is much stronger than us.
It is the special province of music to move the heart.
The world, the real is not an object. It is a process.
It's a matter of keeping people on a spontaneous edge.
You can't be idealistic in this world and not be crazy
I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.
You turned on the radio and heard all kinds of things.
Let your deafness no longer be a secret - even in art.
Bel canto is to opera what pole-vaulting is to ballet.
Creation exists only in the unforeseen made necessary.
We need to restore the spirit of irreverence in music.
Where the heart does not enter; there can be no music.
Handel is only fourth rate. He's not even interesting.
The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious.
Soul has no musical geographical or racial boundaries.
The light of the future casts the shadows of tomorrow.
Being in several, disparate bands is what I thrive on.
I don't go around regretting things that don't happen.
The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
My first cut is always pretty similar to the final cut.
I like good company, but I like hard work still better.
... Art is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.
Music was born free; and to win freedom is its destiny.
Nothing is more beautiful than the sound of the guitar.
What was once underground is now coming to the surface.
Life is too precious to spend it with important people.
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
I studied classical music in the Conservatory of Paris.
Go on being uncommercial. There's a lot of money in it.
Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.
A finished work is exactly that, requires resurrection.
What I said Wasn't wise It wasn't even true I apologise
You can't be idealistic in this world and not be crazy.
It is true that the eyes dominate the ears in our time.
Only art and science can raise men to the level of God.