Cocaine made people deaf, it made people dead and it made people real obnoxious.

The essential elements of singing are voice, musicianship, and story. It is the rare artist that has all three in abundance.

The thing you have to be prepared for is that other people don't always dream your dream.

The only reason to be with somebody is that they make you a better person and you make them a better person.

Somewhere out there, beneath the pale moonlight, someone's thinking of me and loving me tonight.

Everywhere you go, there's a soundtrack. You can't really quite hear it. It's just a little out of the range of hearing.

When the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby, it helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky.

Even though I know how very far apart we are, it helps to think we might be wishing underneath the same bright star.

Ninety-nine percent of singing is listening and hearing, and so then 1 percent of it is singing.

I think musicians are always supportive of each other because they want the groove to keep going on. They just basically want to play music.

I think there's mind in nature. There's a power in nature, and there's a universal power that you'd better not ignore.

It is not our right to punish one for thinking as he does, no matter how much we disagree.

The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and ... people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.

…and you smile back and try not to think about the fact that you have nothing, absolutely nothing, to say to each other.

Chess is life and every game is like a new life.

I think Junior is certainly a science fiction premise as is Twins, as is Dave, beyond Ghostbusters.

Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up.

Often, I work out of my work. One work takes me to the next thing.

Oh some are fond of Spanish wine, and some are fond of French.

I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band leader in the country.

We are stronger than we think. We have emotional, spiritual and even physical resources at our disposal. We may get knocked down, but we don't have to stay down.