I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing and listen.
Nowadays I get complaints about long drum solos, but in those days they wanted me to keep on going so they could go over to the bar and have a drink.
The essence of oppression is that one is defined from the outside by those who define themselves as superior by criteria of their own choice.
Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.
The desire definitely comes from within. There are only a few people who make it to this level and those are the ones who have that innate desire.
For those of us who believe in physics, this separation between past, present and future is only an illusion, however tenacious.
Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act, and in that action are the seeds of new knowledge.
I am not wrong in the belief that its public funds are more secure than those of all the European powers.
If the only tool we use to analyse what's valuable is a price tag, then those things that don't have price tags begin to look like they have no value.
The hardened mass of liquid stones had much stronger qualities than those which had simply torn. The skin remained a recognisable part of the molten stone.
I don't often meet people who want to suffer cardiovascular disease or whatever, and we get those things as a result of the lifelong accumulation of various types of molecular and cellular damage.
All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.
The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others.
I'm one of those people who was taught not to ruffle any feathers. Of course, I have no problem ruffling feathers.
As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makres plain the pathway.
We all sing about the things we're thinking; musicals are about expressing those emotions that you can't talk about. It works a real treat.
Long afterward, many would remember those two days in the first week of October with vividness and anguish.
But as you said, there are going to be those that have no record and cannot be detected in that capacity so that is why you have to have other layers of security.
The difference between darkness and brightness is how you thrive on those moments and how you use such circumstances with goodwill in your spirit.
Americans easily forget that the air they breathe is the same as those in Europe or Africa or Asia; it's the same air as Jesus breathed. I would like them to remember that connection.
Think about the change that the world experiences without the aid of the right people and those who love and appreciate the presence of nature.
