Why, after all, must everyone like music? That they are missing something is just the lover's opinion.

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.

Music is the sole art which evokes nostalgia for the future.

Art's the biggest vanity: the assumption that one's view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable.

It's not evil that's ruining the earth, but mediocrity. The crime is not that Nero played while Rome burned, but that he played badly.

As a lifelong pacifist, Quaker, and a gay man, I despair that gays and lesbians are expending energy trying to get into the military when they should be using that same energy getting rid of the military completely.

Why, after all, must everyone like music? That they are missing something is just the lover's opinion.