Bad music can make you weak.

All the money in the world is spent on feeling good.

No second chances in the land of a thousand dances, the valley of ten million insanities.

You have to be around people you trust; otherwise you can't do anything - you're afraid, you're paranoid, and you can't do any work.

Los Angeles is not Mexico City, but we have many fine nightclubs and restaurants here. It is enough. One must not aim too high.

You're not born with certain skills; you have to acquire them.

Musicians understand each other through means other that speaking.

Beautiful tunes are all very good and fine, and great musicians are always great, but that alone isn't enough.

I always think you should push your envelope every chance you get.

Musicians communicate in other ways. That's just something you rely on.

I just feel that music is a great life, because it's very rewarding. It's a gratification. You do this for yourself, and you also do this for other people.

If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don't know what they are. In their eyes is peace.

No government functions without the grease of corruption.

You are your own best teacher. My advice is to question all things. Seek for answers, and when you find what seems to be an answer, question that, too.

All the quantum physics experiments have occurred chiefly on the atomic scale and we are taught to believe that nature's laws are consistent.

I think one country with nuclear weapons is one country too many.

People regard the same things, some as just and others as unjust, - about these they dispute; and so there arise wars and fightings among them.

The profound aspect of technology is that once secrets are revealed, the magic doesn't disappear.

The more you travel, the more well-off youll be, I think.

In America, Jefferson noted with approval, women knew their place.

Inherit the Wind is a wonderful play, and I was in the original with Paul Muni