Director Quotes

“I want to take Justin Bieber for a month and just lock him up in a cage where we sit and make music. He's one of the most successful people in the world, but his music could be so much tighter.”

“I never want to grow up.”

“I'm hungry for VMAs and Grammys. That's my main goal.”

“I try to tell all the - not even the kids, even people older than me - to just be themselves. Don't wear what I wear 'cause I wear it; wear what you like.”

“I'm a big 'Goosebumps' fan - 'Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes.' My favorites are the pick-your-own-death ones.”

“My favorite songs are my favorite songs because they just feel like a certain moment, or a certain photo, just a snapshot for whatever three or four minutes the song is.”

“I don't like people around me sad. I like making people happy.”

“My lyrics aren't offensive. Some people find everything offensive.”

“I'm not into fashion, but I like design. I wear the same shoes every day.”

“I'm a pretty nice dude. I have fun, and people take it the wrong way.”

“Youth is something I never wanna take for granted. I just want to smile and live life.”

“I'm like a big 10-year-old when I'm on stage. I just go up there and do whatever I think is cool at the moment.”

“I'm an optimistic guy. I'm one of those big dreamers. I'm one of those kids with that annoying imagination.”

“Any so-called stimulus program is a ruse. The government can increase its spending only by reducing private spending equivalently.”

“I have only a mind to live, to enjoy - i.e., to work as an artist, and produce my works; but not for the muddy brains of the common herd.”

“I have long been convinced that my artistic ideal stands or falls with Germany. Only the Germany that we love and desire can help us achieve that ideal.”

“It is necessary for us to explain the involuntary repugnance we possess for the nature and personality of the Jews. The Jews have never produced a true poet. Heinrich Heine reached the point where he duped himself into a poet, and was rewarded by his versified lies being set to music by our own composers. He was the conscience of Judaism, just as Judaism is the evil conscience of our modern civilization.”

“Wherever the fish are, that's where we go.”

“Whatever I thought right, to others seemed wrong; what I held to be bad, others approved of.”

“What Music expresses is eternal, infinite, and ideal; she expresses not the passion, love, desire, of this or that individual in this or that condition, but Passion, Love, Desire itself, and in such infinitely varied phases as lie in her unique possession and are foreign and unknown to any other tongue...So...Here's to Victory, gained by our higher sense over the worthlessness of the vulgar! To Love, which crowns our courage...To the day, to the night!...And three cheers for Music.”

“It is impossible to communicate with Schumann. The man is hopeless; he doesn't talk at all.”

“We must learn to die, and to die in the fullest sense of the word. The fear of the end is the source of all lovelessness”

“We find personal success and great, if not enduring, influence on the outer fashioning of the world allotted to the violent, the passionate individual who, unchaining the elemental principles of human impulse under favoring circumstances, points out to greed and self-indulgence the speedy pathways to their satisfaction.”

“If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance.”

“Human dignity begins to assert itself only at the point where man is distinguishable from the beast by pity for it.”