* 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.
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
Unbearably lovely music is heard as the curtain rises, and we see the woods on a summer afternoon. A fawn dances on and nibbles slowly at some leaves. He drifts lazily through the soft foliage. Soon he starts coughing and drops dead.
As I was walking up the stair
I met a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today.
I wish, I wish he'd stay away.
The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor.', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs.'
It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.
The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is
inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this
sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him.