“Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.”

“Music without the ebb and flow would be like "watching a film with only good guys in it".”

“Alright. Let's get realistic now. You know and I know that the function of that number was just to provide some sort of warm-up trash before we do something HEAVY. Something a little bit harder to listen to, but which is probably better for you in the LONG RUN. The item in this instance, which will be better for you in the LONG RUN, and if we only had a little more space up here we could make it visual for you, is "Some Ballet Music," which we've played at most of our concert series in Europe. Generally in halls where we had a little bit more space and Motorhead and Kansas could actually fling themselves across the stage, and give you their teenage interpretation of the art of The Ballet. I don't think it's too safe to do it here, maybe they can just hug each other a little bit and do some calisthenics in the middle of the stage.”

“Music is the only religion that delivers the goods.”

“Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.”

“All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.”

“The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.”