It's actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band

What happens with notation is that it reduces things to a language which isn't necessarily appropriate to them. In the same way that words do, you get a much cruder version of what was actually intended.

With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.

A big ego isn't necessarily a bad thing. A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you're prepared to take the risk of trying them out.

Given the chance, i'll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season's over.

Good teachers realise that the students are the antenna; they are sensing things that the teachers don't yet sense.