A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians. |
A drug is neither moral nor immoral -- it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if consumption bestowed a temporary license to act like an asshole. |
All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff. |
Anything, Any time, Anywhere - for no Reason at All. |
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. |
Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff. |
Do we really want to know how Michael Jackson makes his music? No. We want to understand why he needs the bones of the Elephant Man -- and, until he tells us, it doesn't make too much difference whether or not he really is ''bad.'' |
Do you love it - do you hate it? There it is the way you made it |
Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence. |
Fact of the matter is, there is no hip world, there is no straight world. There's a world, you see, which has people in it who believe in a variety of different things. Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence |
I believe that people have a right to decide their own destiny; people own themselves. I also believe that, in a democracy, government exists because (and only as long as) individual citizens give it a "temporary license to exist" - in exchange for a promise that it will behave itself. In a democracy you own the government - it doesn't own you. Along with this comes a responsibility to ensure that individual actions, in the pursuit of a personal destiny, do not threaten the well-being of others while the "pursuit" is in progress. |
I don't want to see any religious people in public office because they're working for another boss |
I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird. |
I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity. |
I think pop music has done more for oral intercourse than anything else that ever happened, and vice versa. |