If you're going to start something-if it's worth starting-then it's worth finishing. That's what I live by.
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
It is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism--Pop Art, eighteen-hour slices-of-reality films, musique concrete--opposes. But instead of bringing art and reality closer together, the new movement merely thins out the distinction.
The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.
A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street any more without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.
My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
Good judgment, common sense, and reason all fly out the window when emotions kick down your door.
It's not about who's going to let me; it's about who's going to stop me.
Corruption is another tax on the consumer and it is the Maltese families who are forking the money to make up for such corruptions.
I guess we're living in a pretty sensitive world and there's nothing you can do about that.