People don't know about football. They think they know about it but they don't know much.
Music is a form of prayer.
My teachers are Duke Ellington and nature.
I always want to write erotic music. . . Not only about the love between men and women, but in a much more universal sense - about the sensuality of the mechanism of the universe. . . about life.
I am a gardener of infinite time.
Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.
Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.
As an activist, you do find yourself directed more toward public action. But I've always tried to use stories from my own life in my writing. It has always been clear to me that the stories of each other's lives are our best textbooks.
The transcendental promises a vacation from history.
I realized the universe is 15 billion years old and unspeakably complicated. I still love the teachings of Christ, but I also believe that the human condition prevents us from having any true objective knowledge and understanding of the universe.
When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.