Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
When you get to the top, don't forget to send the elevator down for the next guy.
Tonight, tonight, won't be just any night. Tonight there will be no morning star.
I have a J.D., but I'm not a practicing attorney as far as entertainment law goes.
My father was a pioneer and a leader in the things he did and the way he did them.
I'm seeking to have an art that is engaged as a way for saying, 'Hurray for unity.
You cannot expect the Form before the Idea,For they will come into being together.
If you make rock music with guitars in it, the Radiohead comparison is inevitable.
Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms.
The charms of seclusion are seldom combined with the conveniences of civilization.
When I don't like a piece of music, I make a point of listening to it more closely
There'll be spring every year without you. England still will be here without you.
A man may be hot but he's not when he's shot cause you can't get a man with a gun.
Listen kid, take my advice, never hate a song that has sold half a million copies.
Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence.
There will always be critics eager to fashion opinions for the lazy and incapable.
The whole universe is based on rhythms. Everything happens in circles, in spirals.
Love much dear friends for love will bring the healing joy and hope of Spring. . .
If age was temperature, You'd be getting hotter Happy 60th degree You, hot shotter
I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages.
His achievements read like the graffiti on the walls of a hangman's changing room.
To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.
It is hard to think of another composer who so perfectly marries form and passion.
Once George Washington said, "I have to step down the so the country can move on."
Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to sound like a dry martini.
When I am composing, the sounds are leading me to the way I want them to organize.
A lot of my early career, I wrote story songs that had narratives, that had plots.
How awful that the artist has become nothing but the after-dinner mint of society.
Two of the hardest words in the language to rhyme are life and love. Of all words!
The planet is asleep and it's the fault of musicians who are untrue to themselves.
The Voice Chamber hatches a new and healthy experience of the vibrational universe
I'm seeking to have an art that is engaged as a way for saying, 'Hurray for unity.'
I woke up when I was 14 and went to speak to my mother and scared us both to death.
I don't labour over my lead guitar solos; they're better just caught in the moment.
the majority of critical, and plenty of uncritical, readers find quotations a bore.
Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties.
I get nervous before I conduct a concert, but then you just go out there and do it.
It may be a good thing to copy reality; but to invent reality is much, much better.
Most of Ayn Rand's major characters are already formed at the start of the stories.
I was made to work. If you are equally industrious, you will be equally successful.
My favorite piece [piece of music] is the one we hear all the time if we are quiet.
There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.
May today be filled With bright hopes for the future And happy memories of the past
How do you document real life, when real life's getting more like fiction each day.
A kiss on the hand may be quite continental, But Diamonds are a girl's best friend.
The only shows I saw as a kid were that holy trinity: 'Les Miz,' 'Cats,' 'Phantom.'
Nothing's forever forever's a lie. All we have is what's between hello and goodbye.
If he'd been making shell-cases during the war it might have been better for music.
Its a funny thing Alice, dying is just the way I composed it in Tod und Verklärung.