I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives.

By bravely enduring it, an evil which cannot be avoided is overcome

Proverb

Percussion music is revolution. Sound and rhythm have too long been submissive to the restrictions of nineteenth century music. Today we are fighting for their emancipation. Tomorrow, with electronic music in our ears, we will hear freedom. At the present stage of revolution, a healthy lawlessness is warranted. Experiment must necessarily be carried on by hitting anything-tin pans, rice bowls, iron pipes-anything we can lay our hands on. Not only hitting, but rubbing, scraping, making sound in every possible way...What we can't do ourselves will be done by machines which we will invent.

John Milton Cage

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

Samuel Johnson

I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.

Patti Smith

If someone is blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will?

H. Ross Perot

The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

Hannah Arendt

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

LaoTzu

To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.

William Glasser

I buy when other people are selling.

J. Paul Getty

In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

W. Somerset Maugham

No one chooses to raise children alone.

Erykah Badu

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Peter Drucker