To see itself through, music must have idea or magic. ... Music with neither dies young though rich.

Artists, by definition innocent, don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back.

The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of

If you read reviews of concerts, the word 'creative' comes up all the time. However, performers playing music usually aren't creative. Critics might say they are, but they're just playing another persons work. They didn't create it.

Sooner or later you've heard all your best friends have to say. Then comes the tolerance of real love.

I don't go to concerts much. I've heard everything. When I do go to movies, I walk out half the time. As for literature, I've read everything.

Intelligence is silence, truth is being invisible. But what a racket I make in declaring this.