There are two things that I cannot live without: music and books. Caffeine isn't dignified enough to qualify.
When I saw the movie, I said, I wish I had heard the music. I would have ridden the horse differently.
There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.
I have so many opinions about everything it just comes out during my music. It's a battle for me. I try not to be preachy. That's a real danger.
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
What is music about? You can't listen to one era, one composer, and know what music is about.
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.
The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.
Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
Most of us women like men, you know; it's just that we find them a constant disappointment.
Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children.
Nobody knows through how many thousands of years fighting men have made a place for themselves while the weak and peaceable have gone to the wall.
Although approximately 80% of osteoporosis sufferers are women, as the longevity of the male population increases, the disease will assume increasing importance in men.
Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.
Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.
Before I leave this Earth, I would like to know they have given women the same benefits and promotions as men.
