I mean, music totally comes from your soul. – Martin Scorsese
Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of thing. Its a cacophony, its like a madness I think thats been happening in the past twenty-five years. And I think anything that can help a person sit in a room alone and not worry about it is good. – Martin Scorsese
If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant? – Martin Scorsese
Film in the 20th century, its the American art form, like jazz. – Martin Scorsese
I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager. – Edgar Allan Poe