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

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

Don't be too dismissive of children. While it's true that few children are artists, all artists are children.

The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty.

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.

Minor artists borrow, great ones steal.

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.