“Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.”

Play is experimenting with chance.

Character is a wish for a perfect education.

The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.

Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.

A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.

Character is perfectly educated will.

The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.

What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?

Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.

I’m just a guitarist in a kick-ass rock and roll band. What more could I ask for?

Obviously, I like the drums to be heard. I think they’re important.

I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.

If you have a great-sounding guitar that’s a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that’s the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.

Making a movie is the same as an orchestra; it’s moving all the different instruments and the sounds, the kinetic and the auditory and the visual all together. I’m probably the trombone.

A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I’m very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time.

I used to play drums when I was a kid, play the trombone.

Once I got a guitar that was relatively user-friendly, but not super-duper easy, I really came on as a guitarist, at that point. It helped. It was a super-expensive guitar either, but something needs to steer you a bit, if you’re playing an instrument that is really hard.