The proposition that Muslims are welcome in Britain if, and only if, they stop behaving like Muslims is a doctrine which is incompatible with the principles that guide a free society.
Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes.
Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.
The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.
The love of a dog is a pure thing. He gives you a trust which is total. You must not betray it.
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
I love singing some Johnny Cash, which is interesting because it's in a guy's key; I love singing Elvis Presley.
Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate.
I'm an adrenaline junkie. I love climbing crazy trees or cliffs, which doesn't make my mom very happy.
There are lots of procedural shows that I love, but I never really wanted to be a doctor on 'E.R.' - which I'm just picking as an example - or be on a crime procedural.
I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
I didn't grasp the basic principle of being a promoter, which was: Put on music but also generate an income. I was on the dole most of the time.
Music is just such... it's not therapy, but it's a release, it's a joy, it's a pleasure. And it's a job - which is weird, because I don't think of it as a job.
I had always thought that I would do something that was connected to music as a career, or possibly Chinese, which was my major.
These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.
Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred.
I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.
I began composing works which were imitative of the music I was being told about. I was also very interested in translating the music into visual terms.
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
How I set myself apart is by creating the sort of real and honest music, which is who I'm also trying to be.
