Personally, I can't see how anyone can produce any beautiful music out of being angry.

But you can't extend, or go beyond any point musically, without the basic fundamentals.

I don't dig staying in one groove.

My roots and Victor's are jazz, basically, but these two young fellows that we have with us come out of rock bands. And they're tremendously exciting players.

And I'm happy to say that I'm able to find people wherever I go that are not black, not white - they're just human beings. That's where I am, where I've been and where I intend to stay.

For the last five years I've been in the production business.

I mean, there's a hell of a lot of grounds for protest, but you don't do it through music.

Musicians have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet.

Luckily, I'm in the position now of being able to play purely because I have the desire to do so.

Boredom is fear's patience. Fear doesn't want to exaggerate. Only on occasion--and fear considers this very important--does it want to know how things stand with me.

Through this evening of sentences cut short because their completed meaning was always sorrow, of normal life dissolved to tears, the chords of Beethoven sounded serenely.

To smile is to turn the lights on, the lights of existence within you!

Isn't everyone hiding something?

They almost had to cancel the Oscars tonight because all of the designers and stylists are still in line in San Francisco trying to marry one another.

Most human behavior is controlled by images. Image is a factor in how people look at themselves and what they use to reflect themselves. The control of images is a major factor in world power.

All things pass...Perhaps the passage of time is a kind of healing, or a kind of salvation granted equally to all people.

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.

I just don't think you pass on a great quarterback if you have the opportunity. If need be, you can trade it away.

The man that dares traduce, because he can with safety to himself, is not a man.