I don't approve of people who watch television, but I am one of them.

The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but rather the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.

Once I turned pro, so to speak, I put away childish things forever.

My moods are inversely related to the clarity of the sky.

Theirs [the Beatles] is a happy, cocky, belligerently resourceless brand of harmonic primitivism... In the Liverpudlian repertoire, the indulged amateurishness of the musical material, though closely rivaled by the indifference of the performing style, is actually surpassed only by the ineptitude of the studio production method. (Strawberry Fields suggests a chance encounter at a mountain wedding between Claudio Monteverdi and a jug band.)

The nature of the contrapuntal experience is that every note has to have a past and a future on the horizontal plane.

I don't approve of people who watch television, but I am one of them.