Something has to happen between you and the public, some interface that lets the public in on what you're doing.

All the money in the world is spent on feeling good.

No second chances in the land of a thousand dances, the valley of ten million insanities.

Bad music can make you weak.

You have to be around people you trust; otherwise you can't do anything - you're afraid, you're paranoid, and you can't do any work.

Los Angeles is not Mexico City, but we have many fine nightclubs and restaurants here. It is enough. One must not aim too high.

You're not born with certain skills; you have to acquire them.

Musicians understand each other through means other that speaking.

Beautiful tunes are all very good and fine, and great musicians are always great, but that alone isn't enough.

I always think you should push your envelope every chance you get.

Musicians communicate in other ways. That's just something you rely on.

Even so, I think historians have more to offer than perspective on our present woes. The foreign country we call the past also lets us look beyond the horizons of what is, to see what could be.

I was a little cross.I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up.

No Fridolf, bother all this learning. I can't study anymore because I must climb the mast to see what kind of weather we're going to have tomorrow.

In order to share intimate feelings, you have to have intimate feelings.

If precious metals had been abundant, they would not have been precious.

There's only one thing for Chicago to do, and that's to move to a better neighborhood.

Most people don't realize that the mind constantly chatters. And yet, that chatter winds up being the force that drives us much of the day in terms of what we do, what we react to, and how we feel.

All my battles were with male egos. I’m just looking for equality, not to dominate. But I want to be able to control my vision.

O, beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties, Above the fruited plain.

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.