My dad being a DJ, I heard all the hits, no matter what. My mom always had on the radio because my dad was on it.
I want to be remembered for only one thing: my contribution to aviation.
Do the impossible, because almost everyone has told me my ideas are merely fantasies.
Passion will make you crazy, but is there any other way to live?
Every man has his price, or a guy like me couldn't exist.
I am by nature a perfectionist, and I seem to have trouble allowing anything to go through in a half-perfect condition. So if I made any mistake it was in working too hard and in doing too much of it with my own hands.
I intend to be the greatest golfer in the world, the finest film producer in Hollywood, the greatest pilot in the world, and the richest man in the world.
Future art that is based on appearances won't look like the art that's gone before. Even revivals of a period are not the same.
I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
It [music] has an awakening function. Life is a rhythm. Art is an organization of rhythms. Music is a fundamental art that touches our will system. In Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Idea he speaks of music as the sound that awakens the will. The rhythm of the music awakens certain life rhythms, ways of living and experiencing life. So it's an awakener of life.
In the contemplation of beauty we are raised above ourselves, the passions are silenced and we are happy in the recognition of a good that we do not seek to possess.