Shiva danced the world into existence... that's a very nice thought.

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.

Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater.

I think we're all pretty odd.

Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.

When we use terms we get confused, yet we have no other way.

Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.

The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.

My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical.

The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare.

Conductors don't suffer, they are part of the performance.

Shiva danced the world into existence... that's a very nice thought.

This is something special. You can attempt to have a kind of non-living music.

I remain a humanist. We are a very curious race.

The Greek sculptor - I don't think he was very different from any of us.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

Public notice does not necessarily accord with internal fulfilment.

I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being.

Nature has different times.

I'm outside the music I've made. I have no interest in it.

Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.

I've seldom become nostalgic or settled.

Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme.

The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. Its probably the music that belongs most to our time.

It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.

But the way people commonly use the word nowadays it means something all of whose parts are mutually interdependent - not only for their mutual action, but for their meaning and for their existence.

The problem with allowing God a role in the history of life is not that science would cease, but rather that scientists would have to acknowledge the existence of something important which is outside the boundaries of natural science.

And, moreover, it is art in its most general and comprehensive form that is here discussed, for the dialogue embraces everything connected with it, from its greatest object, the state, to its least, the embellishment of sensuous existence.

Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm.

I'm not sure how aware of the rest of the world I am. I live a rather sheltered existence.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.

Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Dualists hold that body and soul are separate entities and that the soul will continue beyond the existence of the physical body.

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.

Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking.

The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.

Whatever is referred to must exist. Let us call this the axiom of existence.

Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.

As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a real, anomaly, some account of it may be of interest.

Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.

A vast abortion industry, generating some half a billion dollars annually, sprang into existence in the wake of Roe and Doe.

Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.