Everyone is in the best seat |
Food, one assumes, provides nourishment: but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction |
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. |
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. |
I have nothing to say And I am saying it And that is poetry |
Ideas are one thing and what happens is another. |
If someone says 'can't,' that shows you what to do |
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all. |
It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of ''culture.'' |
It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of ''culture.'' |
It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep. |
Music is a means of Rapid Transportation |
Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation |
The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason. |
The grand thing about the human mind is that it can turn its own tables and see meaninglessness as ultimate meaning |