* some views expressed in these quotations not neccesarily endorsed by the author of this file.
* for entertainment only - history is not an exact science - dates and quotes not guaranteed for accuracy.
People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.
Did I really rehearse and record this junk?
We all know that art is not truth. Art is the lie that makes us realize truth.
Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best!
...all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
Like a madman, beyond all limits, go wherever you please; And live like a lion, completely free of fear.
If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
There may be trouble ahead - But while there's moonlight, and music, and love, and romance -Let's face the music and dance.
On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
Abstract art? A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
...and from a loudspeaker they suddenly heard a wild impossible mistake in jazz that could only have been heard inside their own imaginary head, and that is a new art. Bop.
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
It's kinda like a toothpaste commercial, but there's no product.
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
You load sixteen tons and what do you get - Another day older and deeper in debt.
I hate you, Richard Wagner . . . but I hate you on my knees.
Don't sit and wait - For the world on a plate - (It's not a stroke of luck or chance) - Just draw a bead on that sucker, and drive!
I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.
The leaves that are green turn to brown. And they wither with the wind. And they crumble in your hand.
As far as I'm concerned, there won't be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead.
When I went backstage to see George after the concert, he was chanting, burning incense and seemed to be praying. I didn't want to disturb him, so I waved, he waved and I went home. That was George the quiet one.
Without deviation, progress is not possible.
What's wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you *love*, you care, you like stuff. The thing is, we're frightened to be sentimental.
I am not handsome, but when women hear me play, they come crawling to my feet.
You know what's the loudest noise in the world? The loudest noise in the world is silence.
If didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.