We believe in personal choice, rather than society dictating how we must live our lives.
I could never be a country person, sitting around trees trying to write a song. I would rather be in the middle of society, whether it's growing or crumbling.
The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
I love animals, but I don't want to talk to them. I'd rather be able to talk to other people on other continents and understand them.
I'd love to have the time to learn to sing opera properly rather than bellowing half-formed fragments of melody in exuberant moments.
If one takes all the styles in jazz harmonically from the earliest beginnings to the latest experiments, he still has a rather limited scope when compared to the rest of music in the world.
And I've also come to the conclusion that, as far as guitar solos and things like that are concerned, it's more important to complement the music rather than take away from it.
People are getting ready for music that makes them feel happy again rather than being depressed at the way the world is going right now.
It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. That's one way of making music.
I went to engineering school, I went to physics class. I said, 'Screw this, I don't want to be here. I'd much rather be at a club playing music.'
I'm not really one for reading books. I have a very poor attention span. I'd rather listen to music, play games or watch films on my iPad.
One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product.
I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help, rather than suffer.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses.
Men wholly bent on wordly treasures were the dupes of their own passions, rather than deceived by the writings or pretenses of those who claimed to be Alchemists.
Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.
I find that most men would rather have their bellies opened for five hundred dollars than have a tooth pulled for five.
I would rather die than do a play - 10 years in solitary instead.
