The key of D is daffodil yellow, B major is maroon, and B flat is blue.

I'd just as soon be on a good Steinway or Yamaha just as well.

By the way, I got a Grammy, which was a big thrill.

I have a West Coast rhythm section and a New York rhythm section. I've got them spread out all over the place.

At the risk of being a fuddy-duddy I don't have a computer; I don't have e-mail; and I really don't need something in my house that I would be sitting in front of for hours.

I need to get up and walk around and keep my knees from getting bad, which is what's happening.

The house is in turmoil with records on every space. In the kitchen and in the dining room is covered with records. I don't have a big enough house to accommodate everything.

I would really hate to have e-mail. It's bad enough with all the mail I get.

It's awful to have to, but I've started thinking about that, you know. 86. I'm thinking, well, maybe I might make it to 90. At least I'd like to have my brains.

One should leave the piano when Oscar comes in. This man is dangerous.

So if I think of something in my head I don't have to do it. If I can't do I don't do it, I do something else.

The great risk of living is that we might not survive it.

There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.

No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.

The fact is that the creative person is a disciplined craftsman whose 'gift' is a reaching out toward his most profound personal potential.

In the rural South, the only interesting people were the sexual deviants. Everybody else was able to be part of the mainstream, and could find a way somehow.

We've become so glorified in the movie-star system that it's become this artificial royalty. The truth is that we're circus clowns.

He was beautiful the way an angel is beautiful - timeless, perfect, remote.

Men like cars, women like clothes. Women only like cars because they take them to clothes.

The Red Comyns had always done well behind the throne. The king was but an instrument, as his father used to say. They were the musicians.

Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.