New York Daily News interview (1979)
“The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music.”
" JOSHUA HOMME: “IT DOESN'T MATTER IF IT’S BEEN SAID, IT’S NEVER BEEN SAID BY ME” http://www.antiquiet.com/news/2010/09/josh-homme-interview-zane-lowe/", Antiquet (August 27th, 2009)
and it has no right even to call itself a religion. Without the shield of religion to hide behind, Islam would be banned in the civilized world as a political ideology of hate — and we have no obligation to make allowances for it, any more than we do for Nazism. It's a bigger threat to our freedom than Nazism ever was. Yes, both are totalitarian, and both divide the world unnecessarily into us-and-them, the pure and the impure, and both make no secret of their desire to exterminate the Jews. But we were all more or less on the same side against the Nazis, whereas the Islamonazis have got plenty of friends among people in the West who ought to know better.
"No mosque at Ground Zero" (4 June 2010) http://youtube.com/watch?v=vjS0Novt3X4
2010
Where Is Jazz Going? Music Journal (1962) Reproduced in The Duke Ellington Reader, ISBN 978-0-19-509391-9.
“Music is my love. And because it is my love, music has become my religion.”
Music is a Prayer:An interview with Hariprasad Chaurasia by Ian Gottstein
“Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.”
“From winter, plague, & pestilence, good Lord, deliver us.”
Source: Summer's Last Will and Testament http://www.elizabethanauthors.com/summ1.htm (1600), line 1878.
