“Both poetry and lyrics and all visual arts draw their power from their ability to express abstractions of reality. …that is a feature of the musical brain.”

“Poetic form is an abstraction from. or residue of musical form. The ghost of oral poetry never vanishes therefrom. All poetry was originally oral.”

“… And this is the origin of pop music: it's a professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music as well.”

“We realize, however, that all scientific laws merely represent abstractions and idealizations expressing certain aspects of reality. Every science means a schematized picture of reality, in the sense that a certain conceptual construct is unequivocally related to certain features of order in reality;”

“One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.”

“Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea.”

“Happenings are a fusion of visual art, music and theatre.”

“Human process music using both absolute and relational processing… we attend to the actual pitches and duration we hear in music, as well as their relative values. This dual mode of processing is rare among species… These modes of processing and the brain mechanisms that gave rise to them were necessary for the development of language, music, poetry, and art.”

“The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation.”

“I never feel quite complete unless I'm doing all the arts-visual, musical, literary.”