An actor is an instrument. One needs to control them.
There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.
All beautiful women are murderers. You've probably heard it said before.
History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing.
We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.
The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument.
Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego.
I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.
I always take care to have interesting chord progressions, because you can have the best sound design in the club, and you'll kill it in the club, but in five years, kids will have better sound design. But if your music is good, you'll always be able...
Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.
Combining music, theater and comedy is a new and broader form of expression. In certain combinations you can make people laugh one moment, cry the next, and then be astounded by the beauty of the music.
If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will ...
My whole drive is to make sure that music is a common space where we search for beauty and share it. It needs to be louder than any conversation. That's where we have to go as a human race.
Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.
I just try to play music from my heart and bring as much beauty as I can to as many people as I can. Just give them other alternatives, especially people who aren't exposed to creative music.
I am interested in the study of music and the discipline of music and the experience of music and music as a esoteric mechanism to continue my real intentions.
The most consistent musical experience I had growing up was church music.
It simply becomes more and more difficult as you move further away from your heyday, music being the only format where you're treasured for your youth - that and acting. If you're a writer or a painter or any other kind of artist, your experience is ...
I've had the healthy and sobering experience of constantly working with music that is invariably better than any performance of it can be.
For me, making music is a continuous learning experience, and I think that it feeds itself.
