Hearing Marilyn Crispell play solo piano is like monitoring an active volcano. She is one of a very few pianists who rise to the challenge of free jazz.

A Romantic ideology that predates rock glorifies the self-destructive artist as someone who's too honest and delicate for this world... It's not an easy job, and its stresses can take their toll.

Wynton Marsalis' skills have grown as fast as his ambition, and he is the most ambitious younger composer in Jazz.

Artists are perceptive, but they choose to write songs or make movies or paint pictures rather than simply keeping private diaries.

Baikida Carroll, whose balance of bravada and tenderness, facility and understatement mark him as a player to be reckoned with.

[Loco De Amor is] a euphoric, melodic romp across the hemisphere... A joyful, fun musician's record from a really good guitarist

Love is more beautiful when it's real.

I want to know everything about you." So he told her. The stars, too, seemed to listen.

Choice of attention to pay attention to this and ignore that is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer.

I don't really inject the rock 'n' roll thing, what I take from rock 'n' roll is probably the melodies and the musical behind it.

To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.

To tell a lie in cowardice, to tell a lie for gain, or to avoid deserved punishment--are all the blackest of black lies.

The cold, basic truth is that you are a vital and necessary part of this world

It was really bizarre. I was learning how to be a black guy from a white guy pretending to be a black man.

Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature.

AIDS is no longer a death sentence for those who can get the medicines. Now it's up to the politicians to create the "comprehensive strategies" to better treat the disease.