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"Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world."
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"When a problem or a difficult situation arises, say to yourself, as if you already believe it: 'This is for my benefit."
"You erased my famine, unpicked my angerYour energy charges my voice, it radiates my heart;Now I am alive with the ore of words pouringFrom my lips like molten lava glittering with joy."
"Let all of life be an unfettered howl."
"There are poets,there are philosophers, there are spiritualists and me. I try to foot the bill of these mighty three."
"Writing is probably the only form of art, through which you can express, which you would otherwise wouldn't dare to say in person...."
"The word in your mouth is anarchy."
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"If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven."
"But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense."
"In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind."
"If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?"
"Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world."
"A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity."
"There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life."
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