I don't really want to talk about the old stuff - I really don't think it's important any more. I have a lot of new songs, which are more important to me

Everyone is interested in what's new. Few people are interested in what's better.

It is an odd circumstance that neither the old nor the new, by itself, is interesting; the absolutely old is insipid; the absolutely new makes no appeal at all. The old in the new is what claims the attention,—the old with a slightly new turn.

The past does not interest, the present does not satisfy, the future alone is the object which engages us.

I am old, but I certainly have not that sign of old age, extolling the past at the expense of the present.

I like boring things.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

The pleasure of buying a new thing disappears in days, even hours.
So much misery comes from indulgences in current junk. So the way to live is to ignore everything new.
All of it.
Let the test of time filter everything.
Value only what has endured.

I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

Liking interesting things doesn’t make you interesting.

I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you. Anyway, the real point is that the things that don't seem to me to be pictorially informed are not so interesting to me.

لا أحب الكتب الجديدة .. أنها تمنعني من قراءة الكتب القديمة

I am not interested in the ephemeral — such subjects as the adulteries of dentists. I am interested in those things that repeat and repeat and repeat in the lives of the millions.

"Old" and "new" are the perennial poles of all feeling and sense of orientation in the world. We cannot do without the old, because in what is old is invested all our past, our wisdom, our memories, our sadness, our sense of realism. We cannot do without faith in the new, because in what is new is invested all our energy, our capacity for optimism, our blind biological yearning, our ability to forget — the healing ability that makes reconciliation possible.