"If one plays good music, people don't..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.”

“Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.”

“To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations.”

“Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul...when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued withthe same passion; and if over a long time he habitually listens to music that rouses ignoble passions, his whole character will be shaped to an ignoble form.”

“I feel that I speak the musical language.”

“If it was up to me, I'd get more oil tanker drivers drunk. I don't value music much. I like the Beatles, but I hate Paul McCartney. I like Led Zeppelin, but I hate Robert Plant. I like the Who, but I hate Roger Daltrey.”

“You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.”

“True words seem false.”

“It was tough sitting in jail listening to Jay Leno and Rush Limbaugh and everybody making jokes about me getting shot. And watching the media report all kinds of lies about me, like that I got raped in jail. That never happened. But at least while I was locked down, all the inmates gave me props encouragement, and so did lots of mothers and kids, who wrote me letters of support.”