Slow motion gets you there faster.

Ragtime was my lullaby.

Never play anything that don't sound right. You might not make any money, but at least you won't get hostile with yourself.

The trouble with doing nothing is that you can never take any time off.

I know Mother named me after a railroad man, but it's too late now, I'm afraid. Much, much too late.

In Hollywood, the rainbow hits the ground for composers.

Traveling with a big band is like being an inmate in a traveling zoo.

I don't think I'll ever be president of anything.

I'm singing the music publisher's theme song - it ain't a commercial.

You sittin' here chained to your rockin' chair.

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Sometimes, well, all the time, I can't think of what to say because I'm so dumb and stuff, and then maybe I think of it like five days later.

We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.

When I get up in the morning, I have to decide what I'm going to have for dinner or I can't get through the day.

Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself.

Our finest flowers are often weeds transplanted.

The disease is painless; it's the cure that hurts.

I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europa.

I think that the notion of being creative is the notion that, inwardly, you assume that many things are possible. And that you can try these things and that something will happen.

It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.