"I was never worried that synthesizers would replace musicians. First of all, you have to be a musician in order to make music with a synthesizer."

“... life is moral responsibility. Life is several other things, we do not deny. It is beauty, it is joy, it is tragedy, it is comedy, it is psychical and physical pleasure, it is the interplay of a thousand rude or delicate motions and emotions, it is the grimmest and the merriest motley of phantasmagoria that could appeal to the gravest or the maddest brush ever put to palette; but it is steadily and sturdily and always moral responsibility.”

“Consciousness is somehow a by-product of the simultaneous, high frequency firing of neurons in different parts of the brain. It's the meshing of these frequencies that generates consciousness, just as tones from individual instruments produce the rich, complex, & seamless sounds of a symphony orchestra”

“Southampton have always been at the top, apart from the seasons when they weren't”

Source : "Stupid football quotes: 2012's best gaffes from managers and pundits" by Steve Anglesey, www.mirror.co.uk. December 31, 2012.

“All too many journalists seem to mistake scandal mongering for tenacious investigation, and far too many aspire to make themselves the story.”

“Morn, Wak'd by the circling hours, with rosy hand Unbarr'd the gates of light.”

“I've often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us, unless it's inside a frame.”

Source : "Abbas Kiarostami's best shot". Interview with Abbas Kiarostami, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2009.

“Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty.”

“The United States government first learned of the diversion of the W-88 nuclear warhead design in late 1995.”