* 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.
I wish it were easier to be objective enough to label one's own art.
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Among all men on the earth, bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
I'm an artist who is a Christian. I'm not a Christian artist.
Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy.
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Art is on the side of the oppressed. [...] For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?
Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.
My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
[that] nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.
Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.