A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.
A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.
As far as rearing children goes, the basic idea I try to keep in mind is that a child is a person. Just because they happen to be a little shorter than you doesn't mean they are dumber than you.
Being cynical is the only way to deal with modern civilization- you can't just swallow it whole.
Censoring what you say is one of the ways in which people who are not nice can take away your personal freedom.
Children are naive- they trust everyone. School is bad enough, but, if you put a child anywhere in the vicinity of a church, you're asking for trouble.
Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.
Drugs will turn you into your parents.
Everything on this planet has something to do with music.
Government is the Entertainment division of the military-industrial complex.
How many people died from the Kama Sutra, as opposed to the Bible? Who wins?
I'm not black, but there's a whole lot of times I wish I could say I'm not white.
If we can't be free at least we can be cheap.
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.
If your children ever find out how lame you really are, they'll murder you in your sleep.
Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best...
It gets harder the more you know. Because the more you find out the uglier everything seems.
It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice- there are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.
Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny.
Just because somebody hears something you say, or reads something that you write, doesn't mean you've reached them.
Let's not be too rough on our own ignorance; it's what makes America great!
Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity.
Music is the only religion that delivers the goods.
One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.
Organized religions by their very natures are misleading. The bottom line is always money.
Remember there's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.
Rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, in order to provide articles for people who can't read.
Sometimes you got to get sick before you can feel better.
The first thing you have to do if you want to raise nice kids, is you have to talk to them like they are people instead of talking to them like they're property.
The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life.
The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own.
The richest people in the world aren't particularly smart or happy. And the happiest people in the world aren't particularly smart or rich.
The United States is a nation of laws, badly written and randomly enforced.
There is no hell. There is only France.
There is no such thing as a dirty word. Nor is there a word so powerful, that it's going to send the listener to the lake of fire upon hearing it.
To me, absurdity is the only reality.
When God created Republicans, he gave up on everything else.
Why do you necessarily have to be wrong just because a few million people think you are?
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.
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