If I had money, I would like to get an old building, have music performances, do lithographs, have shows of paintings, and do those things that I'm interested in doing.

Fear is the biggest motivator.

If you are you, 24 hours a day, then you do not have to remember who you are supposed to be in different situations - something that I imagine could be troublesome.

I think people who sample are cheating. It is like people who do collages. Use all of your own stuff.

In the middle 1940s... I heard everyone live. Painting, the theater; everything was happening. It was an exciting time when New York was the place to be.

While everyone has a right to his or her opinion, the people who are informed have more of a right.

I have been going to Italy since 1980, but I always went to do work. I did not live overseas, because I do not like running around with everything I own in a paper bag.

Most of my recorded material has been in small group configurations. I have not released large orchestral works as recordings because it hasn't been within the realm of possibility.

I do not, as a rule, do encores. When I have finished playing, I have indeed finished playing. I have nothing left; there has been no reserve.

If I produce it, I will stage it as a performance. A small audience will be invited; rehearsals of the sections will be done in the mornings, and those sections will be recorded in the afternoons.

I don’t think I can ever go back to cocoa!

When they say you're the best, I always remember that the majority of the audience probably thinks someone else should have gotten the award.

I got kicked out of high school, so I couldn't get into very many colleges.

Live your life like you're the hero in your movie and right now.

When the wheel was accepted as part of the national flag, it was surely implied that the spinning wheel would hum in every household.

The rythms of typing favour short, concise sentences, sentences with oral form.

I thought the Secret Service would protect me from the press, but they were at my house to protect me from assassins with guns, not with assassins with pencils.

When you go to a bar that has a black light, everybody looks cool. Except for me, because I was under the impression that the mustard stain came out.

I have no idea what White House statement was issued, but I stand by it 100 percent.

We must understand variation.