For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.

Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.

Plato

Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

George V. Higgins

I like business and personal life to be distinct.

Carter Burwell

Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

Martha Graham

The silence of a flower: a kind of silence which we continually evade, of which we find only the shadow in dreams.

Lewis Thompson

I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work.

Paul Simon

Great merit, or great failings, will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked in the general run of the world.

Lord Chesterfield

#1425: When you really like someone, tell them. Sometimes you only get one chance.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Life is what happens to you while you

John Lennon

Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.

Cornel West

I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again

Anais Nin

I advise everybody not to save: spend your money. Most people save all their lives and leave it to somebody else. Money is to be enjoyed.

Hedy Lamarr