Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

The bassoon is one of my favorite instruments. It has a medieval aroma, like the days when everything used to sound like that. Some people crave baseball...I find this unfathomable, but I can easily understand why a person could get excited about playing the bassoon.

As long as you're just smart enough to do a job and just dumb enough to swallow what they feed you, you're gonna be alright. But if you go beyond that then you're gonna have these grave doubts that give you stomach problems, headachesmake you want to go out and do something else. So, I believe that schools mechanically and very specifically try and breed out any hint of creative thought in the kids that are coming out.

Disco boy, no one understands, but thank the lord you still got hands.

Nobody gives a crap if we're great musicians.

I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.