Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don't want it.

There are 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit Number2- Never forget rule number 1.

Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession, it's a compulsion.

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.

The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.

If you have a great band with a mediocre drummer, you have a mediocre band. If you have a mediocre band with a great drummer, you have a great band!

Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.

You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it's bad.

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.

Shame on you. Don't tell me you've been married for an hour and you've already got eyes for another woman.

I do believe, as my father once said, that "No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out."

I've always been more interested in the future than in the past.

Manhattan cabs are born old.

Sometimes I'm afraid to go to sleep because of what I'm leaving behind.

When I did small films like Lily and Buenos Vista, everyone thought my career would be ruined.

In times gone by there lived a Count of Ponthieu, who loved chivalry and the pleasures of the world beyond measure, and moreover was a stout knight and a gallant gentleman

To be old can be glorious if one has not unlearned how to begin.

And it feels like, finally.

One should always act from one's inner sense of rhythm.