Doesn't that fool know I recorded that song because I like it?

To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.

Improvisation is the ability to talk to oneself.

Rhythm is the life of space of time danced through.

To feel is perhaps the most terrifying thing in this society.

If you take the creation of music and the creation of your own life values as your overall goal, then living becomes a musical process.

The quality of life, values that go down to doin' that, that's the issue.

You must surrender whatever preconceptions you have about music if you're really interested in it.

Sometimes when it goes really well, you wonder, "who's that at the piano?"

I discovered very early that it wasn't quite enough for me to imitate people.

I try to imitate on the piano the leaps in space a dancer makes.

What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.

Stand strong in your value. That starts by knowing your value.

Leadership: In love with the team, not the spotlights.

Everyone’s searching for someone to end the pain of loneliness. Even the darkest of souls wants a shot at redemption.

...he was not so much a human as a civil war.

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

... to work, to work hard, to see work steadily, and see it whole, was the way to be reputable. I think I always respected a goodblacksmith more than a lady of leisure.

Our business is with life, not death.

Carney is like a graveyard where everyone already owns their plots and has built houses on top of them.

When I first started writing in my early 20s it was literary criticism for a very eccentric magazine called Books And Bookmen, which allowed me to write, more or less anything.