Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power.
I like all those painters who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.
Those things interest me a lot in songwriting - the human nature of how people think, and the muck that we wind up in.
Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.
Remember all those references to Macedonia as the oasis of peace in the Balkans. You only really appreciate it when you have lost it.
My wish is to be a catalyst, to push for solutions, to broker peace talks, to ensure accountability, especially for those who committed and are still organizing unspeakable crimes.
Under the auspices of peace, our comprehensive renaissance will be built, and it will be a model for those who wish to emulate it in the greater Arab homeland.
Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.
Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.
My father had wanted to name me for Dylan Thomas. He had seen him speak on one of those drunken poetry tours he did.
The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.
The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.
There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.
President Bush will come here and there will be new 'friends' of America to open a new relationship with the world, new economic fortunes for those who 'liberated' them.
We cannot have that relationship if we only dictate or threaten and condemn those who disagree.
There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.
The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story.
When all is said and done, the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds and desires of those who dwell there.
I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success.
