"A man would rather fail according to his own ideas than succeed according to another's."

“Capitalism is a forest fire that is never extinguished, only contained.”

“Night is the other half of life, and the better half.”

“People always should know better. People don't get - they don't get smarter about things that get as basic as greed.”

“The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.”

Source : The Human Province "1943" (1978) (translation by Joachim Neugroschel)

“Sometimes I'll hit a note and sometimes I don't. Why not at least try?”

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“You know, you could live a thousand lifetimes and not deserve him.”

“I don't think music is my job - I don't think about it that way, because I don't really get paid. There's not paycheck at the end; it's more of a "whatever is left over" kind of situation. Also, it keeps me from thinking about my creativity as a business, which it is not. It should remain pure; that's one of the reasons I made music in the first place.”

“I'm someone who has always been quite clear about what I like. In the studio, I'm not a control freak but I know what I want.”