Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and ...

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.

No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.

I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.

A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.