Quotes About Relevance

Basho is the great poet of Japan, writing in the second half of the 17th century, but his work is still incredibly fresh.

To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential.

For me, music is about expressing the inexpressible, and as I get older, man, what I feel the need to express becomes less and less poignant to others.

It is not necessary to agree with the Arab point of view about their own history, but it is foolish to ignore it.

I can see that, without being excited, mathematics can look pointless and cold.

It is great for your work to get through to both the masses and classes.

There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation.

You need cliches. Cliches are what people respond to.

As far as I'm concerned, the book's never closed with Sabbath!

The second-class couple is far closer to what the audience is today. It's who we are.

If you're not in someone's face, they're not going to remember you. So get yourself back into an acting class; get a coach. Do those things you did when you were 20 and wanted it so bad.

As an actor, you can believe that you are the reason for a show's success, but these things are a brand name now. They're like Coca-Cola. It's like, with or without you, people are still gonna drink it.

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

I don't live in the Cold War. Some people maybe still live in the Cold War, but this is their problem, not mine.

Even if I did give a good talk, is what I have to say more important and interesting than what Colin Powell said?

There is always sleaze in the news. And you know what? The news is always a combination of things that are interesting and things that are important.

I would love to make a comeback, but I don't know if people would want to see me.

The mullet has made a comeback, of sorts, and it looks great on young people. But I think if I was walking round with a mullet 25 years later I'd just look like a bloke who's stuck in the 80s.

It doesn't matter if I'm playing a lead role or that of a comedian; I want my audience to have entertainment worth their money.

Well, the stuff that has become more commercial doesn't have any edge.

I don't like comparisons with Merckx or any other rider because we're talking about different eras, so it doesn't make any sense.

I don't believe that competitions are important.

I compose for the common man, for our epoch.

When you are known as this cutting-edge composer all the time... it's no longer cutting-edge.