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

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.

For Gazprom, 2015 is turning out auspiciously. We already see the possibility for additional investments in our investment program.

With acting, you are a small part of the creative process, and sometimes it is hard to feel like you are making an impact.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

The mistakes we make when we try to imagine our personal futures are also lawful, regular, and systematic. They, too, have a pattern that tells us about the powers and limits of foresight in much the same way that optical illusions tell us about the powers and limits of eyesight.

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.

I think Joe Jackson is a great American figure. In my opinion, he became a scapegoat.

We began our 'Luxe Life' and 'Vegas DeLuxe daily columns' not long after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and we've spent a decade bringing you showbiz stories and star scoops. I hope it continues for a long time to come because I honestly feel that all the late nights and around-the-clock hours to be first and fast keep me young.

Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.

Sugar and sand may be mixed together, but the ant rejects the sand and goes off with the sugar grain; so pious men lift the good from the bad.

Eight years ago, I was drawn into Keats's world by Andrew Motion's biography. Soon I was reading back and forth between Keats's letters and his poems. The letters were fresh, intimate and irreverent, as though he were present and speaking. The Keats spell went very deep for me.

I am not a morning person.

Competition is like a treadmill. If you stand still, you get swept off. But when you run, you can never really get ahead of the treadmill and cover new terrain - so you never run faster than the speed that is set.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself

When they come here, what we are looking for them to do is step up to the plate, take responsibility and get the big innings, the centuries - or take a lead with the ball.

One of the things that concerned me was the way the system operated: the wife who went out to work got a full personal allowance, but the wife who was working at home got nothing. This was particularly hard on wives who gave up work for a time to bring up children.

I've always been interested in fashion, the clothes, but I'm not that familiar with the fashion industry; for me it just comes out of quite an innocent sense of style.

When it comes down to it, Hillary Clinton will very much excite the Republican faithful to get out and work hard. I don't know if a similar case can be made if Obama is the candidate.

Reason is not what decides love.

South Koreans who have seen and praised the mass games should remember the hardship of tearful children. Teachers drive them hard with curses and orders to repeat and repeat. When the children return home in the evening, they can hardly walk.

Never try to impress a woman because if you do shell expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.

There's no question that the main location of Al Qaida is in tribal areas of Pakistan.

I've been the teenage success, I've been homeless and driving around in my car and not knowing where to eat. You just want to keep working and learning, and I was doing that. If I hadn't done 'Wild Bill,' I'm sure I would have acted in something else.