Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

College isn’t in everyone’s hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn’t mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

I’m the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen to music or walk through the city. The fame restricts that. It’s a small complaint in comparison to the benefits I get from it, but the restrictive part is what I don’t like – and the fact that it’s not reversible.

Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.

I’m such an emotional and sensitive person, so it only makes sense that my songs are as well.

Only God can look at somebody’s heart.

A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music – these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.

I never could get over the fact that The Pixies formed, worked and separated without America taking them to its heart or even recognizing their existence for the most part.

I’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.

I love making music. That’s what I love to do. So I don’t feel like there’s any need to take a break unless I want to.

You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

In this day and age, when you can use a machine or computer to simulate or emulate what people can do together, it still can’t replace the magic of four people in a room playing.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.

I don’t think I’d ever apologise for music I make, no.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.

I don’t just listen to rap.

I’m turned on by guys who are cultured. That’ll keep me intrigued. They don’t have to have a single degree, but they should speak other languages or know things about other parts of the world or history or certain artists or musicians. I like to be taught. I like to sit on that side of the table.

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

I’m all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.

Swimming has its educational value – mental, moral, and physical – in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

Education is the best provision for old age.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

You can’t really imagine music without technology.

I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It’s all authentic.

I’ve always been surrounded by many great people and professors, but my family, especially my mom who was a teacher, was the person who encouraged me to study and pushed me to continue. When we’re young, we don’t understand why our parents bug us so much with school and doing homework, but it’s a blessing to have that support at home.

I give the children education.

You can have the platinum album. But, you know, when you still feel like you haven’t quite found your place in the world, it kind of gives a crazy offset.

You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don’t have to be in love with anyone.

Metal, I love metal sounds. If I have a stick with me, I just drag it across a fence. And all fences make different sounds, just like people when they laugh.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

I’ve rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert.

I love good, loud speakers.

You know why Foo Fighters have been a band for 20 years? Because I’ve never really told anybody what I think of them. The last thing you ever want to do is go to therapy with your band.

I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.

Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

Most of us believe, or should believe, that every child can learn, given the opportunity, but try substitute teaching just once and you will see firsthand the socioeconomic issues that distract our kids from taking advantage of that opportunity.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

There is no education like adversity.

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

We’ve got to dumb America up again.

I love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love a good, you know, I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they’ve been part of my education as a woman.