"Music is important"

"Music is my religion"

"The referee is going to be the most important person in the ring tonight besides the fighters"

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday"

"Music is the shorthand of emotion"

"It's important that people know what you stand for. It's equally important that they know what you won't stand for"

"In thinking about nanotechnology today, what's most important is understanding where it leads, what nanotechnology will look like after we reach the assembler breakthrough"

"Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction"

"My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary"

"Family is not an important thing, it's everything"

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away"