Even in the heart of America, if a small city is not connected in some demonstrable fashion to other continents, it is dead.

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Negative emotion is your indicator of resistance, while positive emotion is your indicator of allowance. And they are on the same meter: allowance; resistance. Allowance; resistance.

Never to forget where we came from and always praise the bridges that carried us over.

I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music.

There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading.

Does anybody have a cigarette? I'm looking forward to that first smoke. I've been looking forward to [it] for about 30 years.

A man without courage is a boat in a frozen lake! Get rid of your fears!

I'm starting to realize I can't practice a certain way during the week and expect to play another way on Sunday.

I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter.

Yesterday's adaptations are today's routines.