The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all in our heads and in our everyday behavior the fascism that causes us to love power to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame but probably only for this reason that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

The places I visit in any given week are my home so when I'm somewhere that feels good to me it's a real game changer. If a place causes me to have a strong reaction be it positive or negative it'll often find its way into my music.

I'm not very active politically. The causes I work on offer immediate practical accessible help and politics has never meant that to me.

The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance nature compulsions habit reason passion desire.

Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.

If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race creed and color we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon.

Adversity causes some men to break others to break records.

There is no medical proof that television causes brain damage - at least from over five feet away. In fact TV is probably the least physically harmful of all the narcotics known to man.