On Dreams
“Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.”
1988 National Day Rally, when he discussed the leadership transition to Goh Chok Tong in 1990. As quoted in The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia: Volume 2, The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
1980s
“There are men and gods, and beings like Pythagoras.”
Of himself, as quoted in A History of Western Philosophy (1945) by Bertrand Russell
On the music of Talking Heads, from Channel 4's The 100 Greatest Albums
Source: Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
Source: Horns
“Teach me to live, that I may dread
The grave as little as my bed.
Teach me to die…”
Source: Jude the Obscure
“I like go to bed and get up early; in that, I am anti-Spanish.”
Mon Dernier soupir (My Last Sigh, 1983)
“Lady Madonna lying on the bed
Listen to the music playing in your head.”
