One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

There's this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission.

Music would lose its charm were not dissonance interspersed at frequent intervals. The closer a composer can come to discord without actually entering it in the score, the more pleasing will be his composition when given life through musical instruments.

For me, there is no day or night for music. I often work through the night - without phone calls disturbing me.

Music - it's the only thing that can enter your system, your mind, your heart, without your permission.

Music makes me love life, and without it, I don't know if I'd be happy.

I feel blessed and humbled that people have loved my music. Nothing would be possible without their acceptance.

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.

Napster hijacked our music without asking. They never sought our permission. Our catalog of music simply became available as free downloads on the Napster system.

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

I can't imagine life without Vogue at this point. People say, what's changed? What's different But it's just part of growing up, meeting your soulmate and moving on with life.

I guess I can't live without Netflix because I would have nothing to do. All I do is sit home and watch movies.

I live making comics. Comics is an industrial art but less suffering, because comics are for young people who are more adventurous. I do that. I live off comics, and then I write books, but when you want movies, you cannot make movies without money.

I think that you can't make a movie without a script. But you also can't make movies without actors. You also can't make movies without technicians. And there has to be just one person in charge of everybody, and to me that one person is the director.

Most of the time it's the role. Sometimes it's the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. It's the little movies that come out as stories or the fact that I have work to go out, you know what I'm saying, you can only be out so long without work, you start getting antsy.

I have a sneaking suspicion that if there were a way to make movies without actors, George Lucas would do it.

It is painful to watch children trying to show off for parents who are engrossed in their cell phones. Children are nostalgic for the 'good old days' when parents used to read to them without the cell phone by their side or watch football games or Disney movies without having the BlackBerry handy.

I'm able to do motivational speaking all over the world and do so many positive things with my life because of my journey and the battles I've fought. Without cancer, I would have never had some of these opportunities, and I wouldn't be the man I am today.

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.

It's rare that I'm able to get to my desk in the morning without stopping halfway there, turning around, and going in the opposite direction because of a pressing need to straighten all the pictures on the walls, floss my teeth a second time, and make certain that there really are 100 postage stamps in the roll of stamps I bought yesterday.

I show up in my writing room at approximately 10 A.M. every morning without fail. Sometimes my muse sees fit to join me there and sometimes she doesn't, but she always knows where I'll be. She doesn't need to go hunting in the taverns or on the beach or drag the boulevard looking for me.

What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; love's the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning.

Some people keep God in a Sunday morning box and say, 'Hey, I did my religious duty.' That's fine, but the scripture says to pray without ceasing. And I think that means all through the day you're talking to God. Even if it's in your thoughts.