Art is not an object, but a trigger for experience.

The difficulty of always feeling that you ought to be doing something is that you tend to undervalue the times when you’re apparently doing nothing, and those are very important times.

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

I'd love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music.

I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.

The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn't just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one. A responsible designer might try to overcome this limitation - probably the engineers at Marshall tried, too. But that sound became the sound of, among others, Jimi Hendrix. That sound is called electric guitar.

American television really is pathetic.