So many books, so little time.
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
Definition of rock journalism: People who can’t write, doing interviews with people who can’t think, in order to prepare articles for people who can’t read.
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.
It’s better to have something to remember than anything to regret.
Music is the only religion that delivers the goods.
Art is making something out of nothing, and selling it.
All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.
You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline – it helps if you have some kind of football team, or some nuclear weapons, but in the very least you need a beer.
Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity.
Anybody who wants religion is welcome to it, as far as I’m concerned – I support your right to enjoy it. However, I would appreciate it if you exhibited more respect for the rights of those people who do not wish to share your dogma, rapture, or necrodestination.
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.