All Sayings

In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

Before Elvis, there was nothing.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

Seems to me that the only thing that matters is that we like it, and we do. We like to blow, and we like to swing. And we like to make people happy.

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Music is a spiritual thing, you know. You don’t play with music. If you play with music, you’re just going to get yourself all messed up.

I don't believe in death. I don't believe in dying. I don't believe in nothing that goes on that way.

Rock 'n' roll is sung by cretinous goons. It's the most brutal, ugly, degenerate, vicious form of expression it has been my displeasure to hear.

I'll tell you what freedom is to me: no fear. I mean, really, no fear!

I'm a little wacky. I'm a little fun. I'm a little kooky. I'm a little crazy. I'm a little bit of everything.

Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards. It takes both passion and perspective.

The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters.

I like living, breathing better than working.

I have been so much better at painting than I have been at living.

I don't use the accident. I deny the accident.

I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.

The colonized underdeveloped man is a political creature in the most global sense of the term.

I can only compose if I am in a state of frantic excitement. My nerves must be in a state of tension, of feverish agitation.