Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.
Despite the constant clamor for attention from the modern world, I do believe we need to procure a psychological space for ourselves. I apparently know some people who try to achieve this by logging off or going without their Twitter or Facebook for a limited period.
Clapton asked my brother to play on his record. I thought that was the most wonderful thing in the world.
You stop anybody on any street, around the world, and they know who Eric Clapton is. They don't know who I am!
I hope my journals relating to World War II will help clarify issues of the past and thereby contribute to understanding the issues and conditions of the present and future.
About the idea of a clash between cultures, between civilisations, I don't believe in it. It's something some political leaders tried to use, and that the media tried and are still trying to sell us, in order to simplify the world and their work.
My films are about ideals that clash with the world. Every time it's a man in the lead, they have forgotten about the ideals. And every time it's a woman in the lead, they take the ideals all the way.
The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
I probably have the most versatile playlist in the world, from country to rap to classic rock to classical.
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
The classical ballet world is so exclusive and small, and a lot of people don't know about it.
Andres Segovia, the great name for guitar, he put classical guitar on the map. He was the proponent of it, the best in the world. So I was listening to a record that he had made, and a little bauble happened in the middle of the record. A finger slipped, and I said, 'Wait a minute. He's not allowed to make mistakes,' - my mind.
Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of classical music has absorbed influences from all over the world.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Most guys in high school wore clothes seen only by their classmates. I wore clothes seen by the world.
A student of life considers the world a classroom.
There's nothing in the world like getting up in front of a high-school classroom in New York City. They won't give you a break if you don't hold them. There's no escape.
I consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school, and our life the classrooms.
We owe it to our children to equip them with all the capabilities they'll need to thrive in the limitless world beyond the classrooms.
It is a strange world, Oxford - quite claustrophobic. I was often glad I was only there for eight weeks at a time.
