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.

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.

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.

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.

Enjoy every ounce of your life, get high and be sincere to anybody that comes around you.

In my experience, there’s no secret to accomplishing almost any goal worth pursuing.

The main work of haunting is done by the living

I'll take thy word for faith not ask thine oath Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both.

We must live harmoniously with our neighbors.

I have a pretty good understanding of animals.

I think people think that labels can get you features more than you can get your own. I just doesn't work like that.

If you're asking me if I like your company, the answer is yes. If, on the other hand, you're asking me if I could live without you, the answer is also yes.

Let me have war, say I; it exceeds peace as far as day does night; it's spritely, waking, audible, and full of vent.

When you’re truly connecting with wisdom, the more you learn, the more you realize the less you know.