“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion.”

All your children are poor unfortunate victims of systems beyond their control

Beware of the fish people, they are the true enemy.

Tobacco is my favorite vegetable.

Music is the most physically inspiring of all the arts.

I don’t want to spend my life explaining myself. You either get it, or you don’t.

Stupidity has a certain charm – ignorance does not.

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

If you pick up a guitar and it says, ‘take me, I’m yours,’ then that’s the one for you.

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.

So many books, so little time.

May your shit come to life and kiss you on the face.

Republican is fine, if your a millionaire. Democrats is fair, if all you own is what you wear. Neither of them’s really right, cause neither of them care.

Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best.

The computer can’t tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what’s missing is the eyebrows.

Modern music is people who can’t think signing artists who can’t write songs to make records for people who can’t hear.

The first thing you have to do if you want to raise nice kids, is you have to talk to them like they are people instead of talking to them like they’re property.

Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.

Who talks most about freedom and equality? Is it not those who hold the bill of rights in one hand and a whip for affrighted slaves in the other?

Our freedom to operate and maneuver had increased substantially through disciplined procedures. Discipline equals freedom.

The temptation is powerful to close our eyes and wait for the worst to pass, but history tells us that for freedom to survive, it must be defended and that if lies are to stop, they must be exposed.

I’m free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?

Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.