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Everyone goes to the forest; some go for a walk to be inspired, and others go to cut down the trees.
I had a record deal with Sony in the beginning of the 90s, and I was rapping and singing in my band.
It’s a cliché - but true - that life is not a dress rehearsal. You get to do it once, so do it well.
Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.
Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
Can anybody be given creativity? No. Only equipment to develop it if it's in them in the first place.
u201Che G-minor Symphony consists of eight remarkable measures surrounded by a half-hour of banality.
The Arctic Ocean is completely unprotected, so technically, people can do with it whatever they like.
I was playing birthday parties. House-rent parties where they used to sell whisky during prohibition.
While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument.
Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.
We all end in the ocean. We all start in the streams. We're all carried along, by the river of dreams.
She's got a way about her, And everywhere she goes, a million dreams of love surround her, everywhere.
Know what you love and do what you love. If you don't do what you love, you're just wasting your time.
There ain't much future for a man who works the sea, there ain't no island left for islanders like me.
I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
I've played for crowds as small as 30 people. As long as people want to see me play then I'll perform.
Baseball was my main sport, but I peaked when I reached high school and so my baseball career stopped.
I think that you can absolutely enjoy your artistic passion without seeking for the cult of celebrity.
Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.
I've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight.
Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.
The historical importance of a composer does not always go hand in hand with the quality of their work.
We feel like if we miss a Sunday at church, that's one thing, but we can't miss an opportunity to help.
Anyone that dares begrudge what I have today, just better get off their duff and do something about it.
I love The Edge's guitar style; it is unique. There is an ancient world resonating in his guitar sound.
I was bored to death and thinking more about the minibar and the after-show party than the performance.
Well I never had a place that I could call my very own/That's all right, my love, 'cause you're my home.
I detest audiences. Not in their individual components but en masse... I think they are a force of evil.
I have to listen to New York; I live there. I wasn't born there, but I've been living there all my life.
Being an athlete helps me get those grandiose emotions of pleasure and pain that are involved in sports.
Every great work of art has two faces, one towards its own time and one towards future, towards eternity.
People like Bryant Gumbel and Bob Costas are terrific broadcasters because they get challenged every day.
I'm almost a vegetarian. I have a very rigid exercise routine. I'm up at 6 A.M.; I take a lot of ginseng.
It is only when we become aware that our time is limited that we can channel our energy into truly living
You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own.
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
My house was really like 'It's a Wonderful Life.' I sang in the choir and was very involved in the church.
The love I have for my daughter is completely unconditional, and it is the most important love in my life.
You need a mind open to possibility, conditioned to love the creative spirit we all have inside ourselves.
In Greek, we do not use just one word for love. We have many words that are specific to each type of love.
I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.
If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing
By the time I was six, I made an important discovery that I get along much better with animals than humans.
I believe that all important matters have to be settled here, not in the clouds somewhere after we kick off.
Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener.
I can't remember faces, don't remember names, but after awhile and a thousand miles it all becomes the same.
You may never understand How the stranger is inspired For he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong.
I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.