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.

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.

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.

Change is just the vehicle to elevate you toward the ultimate destinations.

Your friendship is like a kiss that makes my heart young again and wipes out the years of darkness and destruction sure does remind me of Joel 2:25

For the future, primarily, we must educate people in science, engineering, technology and math.

I mean that at least 80% of the Russian people feel destitute. It's the people who had their past and future taken from them - they don't get paid - many of them face a wall. They have nowhere to go.

I guess working on 'Mad Men' turned me onto AMC and really got me watching the network, and so with that I got a good idea of the type of show they like to produce.

Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years.

Just because I'm an artist doesn't mean I should be treated differently.

The histories of our two peoples, Palestinian and South African, correspond in such painful and poignant ways, that I intensely feel myself being at home amongst compatriots

Im a little goofy sometimes; I can get a little wacky.

The path we're on has taken the USA to the brink of bankruptcy.