Everyone's a singer now, thanks to karaoke, for better and for much worse. But the live band is now becoming ancient history in Thailand, Cambodia, and Burma.

In terms of perceptions of the culture, most people don't think about music. They're not concerned with it. They don't take their musical legacy seriously.

I've had to adjust to karaoke as a modern reality that obscures our hunt for what we're truly after.

There hasn't been a true breakdown or effort to break Thai music into genres. They're not into dicing and slicing everything up.

Old is unwanted. You don't find Thais going to the thrift store. They want new clothes. They want the newest cell phone.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to teach.

If you are afraid of changes Watch from a distance Whether or not I might do something If you're going to talk about me behind my back It is what it is.

Experience is low; confidence is high.

My head monk asked how it was walking. I said it hurt without shoes. And he said, 'It hurts on the foot that's down, but the one that's up feels really good - so focus on that one'.

To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom.

A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.

Nothing is more tedious than the dreaming platitude.

When I was at Brown. In other words, I'd heard about [H.P. Lovecraft], but I didn't pay that much attention till I happened to go to a meeting about it. And then I got just totally turned on.

Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago.

There's a price tag on everything including black people's lives and what they do with them.