If you put yourself in a situation of unpredictability and then find that it's completely possible to accept it, then you become an observer.

Loudspeakers should be made to be destroyed and... disposable.

I persist in performing.

Performing is very much like cooking: putting it all together, raising the temperature.

The basic notion was the idea that the loudspeaker should have a voice which was unique and not just an instrument of reproduction, but an instrument unto itself.

If you put yourself in a situation of unpredictability and then find that it's completely possible to accept it, then you become an observer.

I am perfectly willing for my music to exist with somebody else's taste.

I've never been able to arouse any interest in myself for digitally produced sound, and so the computer turns me off.

Most electronic equipment uses the principle of amplification. You need filters, modulators and mixing equipment which have gain stages. By piling these components up, I was able to work without any sound generators and I made several pieces in that manner.

I've always felt that there's a point where a piece seems to be alive, that is, living. And that's the point where I know the composition is finished.

All he wants to do is practice and that's all he does, all day long. That's what it takes if you want to change the face of music. You've gotta be committed to it.

Since the September 11 attacks, nearly 400 individuals have been arrested by the Justice Department as a result of ongoing investigations into international terrorism. Of that total, over half were convicted as a result of their actions.

Women deserve the same permanent rights and explicit protections given men in the Constitution.

I've always taken pride to be the white guy that can talk to the black people, that can refer to them truly as a brother from a different mother.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness that unexpected warmth rushes through me.

I still think it's really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.

When I finished high school, I was 16, and in Argentina you have to choose a career right after high school. There is no such thing as a liberal arts education.

Think of me as the weathered sheriff coming back into Dodge 'cause the youngsters are shooting up the church and scaring the horses and not doing right by the women.

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

The one thing I did learn at Florida State I learned to talk trash believe that.

Wage theft, worker rights and workplace discrimination should not be swept under the rug. The United States cannot have a functional economy where all the gains go to the corporate class while all the pain goes to regular workers.

Kiss is a Fourth of July fireworks show with a backbeat.

If you look back at when things like tablets and smartphones were first invented, or the Newton at Apple, that was the first attempt at VR. We didn't even have 3D GPUS, or were just getting them.

'Love Will Tear Us Apart' is very simply written.

It certainly is dangerous that there are only a few clubs left in Europe that can afford to pay millions. At the end of the day however, the spectators decide the rates of pay - by watching the games and consuming the goods and services advertised on sports TV programmes.

The music for me is paradise. I think it's where God lives.

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.

Pretend and real are all real to a psychopath.

Great teams always have a Plan B. Look at Barcelona. Their Plan B is to stick to Plan A.

Americans different in some maybe thoughts or emphasis still have the same ideas. They want a government that lets them be free, that leaves them alone, that doesn't interrupt and interfere with every aspect of their life, that lets them go to work and keep more of what they've worked hard to have.

As a comedian, it really gelled when I started doing standup. Because standup is so much about bravery, especially in the early days. There is no doubt that it is going to go terribly for you over and over and over again. But you cannot get funny without bombing.

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You dont try to forget the mistakes but you dont dwell on it. You dont let it have any of your energy or any of your time or any of your space.

I hope and trust the infinite, the eternal, and merciful and loving God. I worship Him and feel no guilt in my heart before him for what I am going to do.