- “A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.”
- “Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.”
- “Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?”
- “Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.”
- “Friends applaud, the comedy is over.”
- “Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”
- “Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.”
- “Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.”
- “Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.”
- “Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.”
- “Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.”
- “Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.”
- “Off with you! You’re a happy fellow, for you’ll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!”
- “Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.”
- “Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.”
- “Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.”
- “The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, «Thus far and no farther.»”
- “This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.”
- “Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.”
- “What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.”
- “A friend is nothing but a known enemy.”
- “Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self esteem.”
- “I bought a gun and chose drugs instead.”
- “I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.”
- “I really haven’t had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I’d rather tell a story about somebody else.”
- “I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn’t.”
- “I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude.”
- “I won’t eat anything green.”
- “I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.”
- “I’m so happy because today I found my friends – they’re in my head.”
- “I’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.”
- “I’ve always had a problem with the average macho man – they’ve always been a threat to me.”
- “If it’s illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!”
- “If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.”
- “If you ever need anything please don’t hesitate to ask someone else first.”
- “It’s okay to eat fish because they don’t have any feelings.”
- “Punk is musical freedom. It’s saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster’s terms, ‘nirvana’ means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that’s pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.”
- “Rather be dead than cool.”
- “The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.”
- “The worst crime is faking it.”
- “A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.”
- “A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.”
- “A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.”
- “A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.”
- “A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.”
- “A subject for a great poet would be God’s boredom after the seventh day of creation.”
- “A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.”
- “Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.”
- “After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.”
- “Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.”
- “All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.”
- “All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.”
- “All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.”
- “All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.”
- “All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie?”
- “Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.”
- “An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.”
- “And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”
- “And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.”
- “Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn’t.”
- “I don’t think more concentration is required for Robert De Niro to do what he does as for Jim Carrey to do what he does.”
- “I’d like to produce, direct, write, score, and star in a film in exactly the way Chaplin did. I’ll do that before I’m thirty.”
- “I’m 42 and the age of a guy who has kids, so I guess I’m playing right where I’m supposed to be. I’m comfortable with that, but in the same breath I’d do something edgy. If someone came to me and offered me an edgy and funny story, then I’d do it.”
- “I’m relaxed about my career. I’ve been making movies for over 20 years, so I’ve earned at least the right to relax.”
- “I’ve always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.”
- “I’ve made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I’ve mostly been successful.”
- “If I don’t die in a plane crash or something, this country has a rare opportunity to watch a great talent grow.”
- “In a movie like this, the relationship between the two guys is crucial. It sinks or swims on how these two guys are together. I think we did a good job.”
- “In the original script, my character was a basketball player rather than a boxer. I didn’t think I could pull that off. I’m a little short to be a basketball player!”
- “The economy in Ireland has been rampaging ahead for the last 15 years. Barring an international, political or natural catastrophe, things can only get better for the Irish.”
- “The thing about kids is that they express emotion. They don’t hold back. If they want to cry, they cry, and if they are in a good mood, they’re in a good mood.”
- “You know, making a movie is a collaborative effort and sometimes all the ingredients don’t work out. I know that every now and again I am going to make a movie that won’t work.”