Never mind, put any book on the piano, and someone can turn from time to time, so I need not look as though I played by heart.

It's not that music is too imprecise for words, but too precise.

Life and art are not two different things.

The trombone is too sacred for frequent use.

This is what I think art is and what I demand of it: that it pull everyone in, that it show one person another's most intimate thoughts and feelings, that it throw open the window of the soul.

The essence of beauty is unity in variety.

Pray to God that He might create is us a clean heart and renew a right spirit within us.

These, too, seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.

These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Keep your mind open

Let's pray that the human race never escapes Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

Tobey's a mellow, cool guy. He's just a good guy. I know that's not the answer you want, and I don't mean that as the political thing to say, but he's a nice guy.

You can't trust your memory. You change it to suit yourself.

I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi.

This crusade is much more important than the anti- lynching movement, because there would be no lynching if it did not start in the schoolroom.

The tree is stripped, All color, fragrance gone, Yet already on the bough, Uncaring spring!

To be honest, I miss the old Hollywood way of having some mystique about the star.

Our elders say that an elephant does not find its own trunk heavy.