The power of thought is extremely powerful.
You can't really imagine music without technology.
Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
When I was working with Talking Heads what would happen typically is that they would go out and start playing a track, and I would always run the tape. I always record everything, even a run through where you're trying to get in tune. That's a principle because sometimes when the situation isn't clear interesting things happen, and they are worth listening to again.
The trouble with New Age music is that there's no evil in it.
The point about working is not to produce great stuff all the time, but to remain ready for when you can.
I'd rather hold one note for an hour and modulate it so that it means something than play 3,000 notes in 15 seconds.
Men are confused. They're conflicted. They want a woman who's their intellectual equal, but they're afraid of women like that. They want a woman they can dominate, but then they hate her for being weak. It's an ambivalence that goes back to a man's relationship with his mother. Source of his life, center of his universe, object of both his fear and his love.
I'm afraid my glass is no longer half full because I drank most of it.
I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science.
Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees.