I actually get a metallic taste in my mouth when I think about electric music.

The way I think about the practicing, it is my undercover work.

If you already have a piece of music ingrained in your body, why would you not play it?

If music is sound & came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound.

Creativity is what makes humanity move. We were created to participate.

I cannot say what I think is right about Music. I only know the rightness of it.

Ideally, I'd like to be the eternal novice, for then only the surprises would be endless.

I believe that a truly valuable artist must be an artist who realizes the impossibility of his task -and then continues to do it.

One thing you learn: if you want to reveal yourself, you also have to know where to stop.

Silence is the potential from which music can arise.

Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms.

What the hell am I doing...? Escape holding myself as a hostage...? I won't be able to make it like that...

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.

When I speak of The Case for Equality I mean human equality; and that, of course, can only mean one thing: it means equality of income.

The entire culture was organized for people who are happy. People who are miserable need reassurance that other people are miserable.

How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

My coherence-creating groups are going to put out all this mischief-mongership in the world.

With the single exception of Park Lane, every north-south route in London slows traffic to the pace of a wounded gnat with pleurisy struggling with a squaddie's backpack.

We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them.

Whenever two hypotheses cover the facts, use the simpler of the two.