As Eric Dolphy said 'Once you play the music, it's in the air. It's gone'. And that's true. But when you record it, it comes back to haunt you sometimes.

The sound and proper exercise of the imagination may be made to contribute to the cultivation of all that is virtuous and estimable in the human character.

If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness and comes out in your music.

To be creative and spontaneous, you have to live with imperfection.

Schlepping all of the equipment is the part I hate more than anything.

Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it.

Conventional economics is a form of brain damage.

Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.

The awareness of place, space, or condition is not liberation. You can't say what it is, but you can sure say what it isn't.

Leadership always contains far more down cycles than ups. Lincoln, Jefferson, Washington, Wilson, and both Roosevelts experienced setbacks that would have discouraged (the) less resilient.

Our parents are our first oppressors.

So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue.

Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.

You should never be ashamed of the suffering you've been through.

On that road of the informer, it is always night. I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me. I inform without pleasure, because it is necessary.