In some far off place, many light years in space, I’ll wait for you. Where human feet have never trod, where human eyes have never seen. I’ll build a world of abstract dreams and wait for you.

All these other nations seem to appreciate what I’m doing and they want me to play the furthest out things.

It’s such a tragedy that man endures in killing his brother and his own kind, putting him in jail and insane asylums, letting him lay out in the street.

Today’s symphonic music is sponsored by the upper structures of society.

I always say it’s not my Arkestra, it belongs to some other force which wants certain things, to reach people.

The world thinks that music is a commercial commodity. I’m glad that is not my code.

Sometimes in the ignorance I feel the meaning Invincible invisible wisdom, And I commune with intuitive instinct With the force that made life be And since it made life be It is greater than life And since it let extinction be It is greater than extinction. I commune with feelings more than prayer.

And then when I went to Chicago, that’s when I had these outer space experiences and went to the other planets.

I’m not a minister, I’m not a philosopher, I’m not a politician, I’m in another category.

But recently I began to feel that maybe I wouldn’t be able to do what I want to do and need to do with American musicians, who are imprisoned behind these bars; music’s got these bars and measures you know.