I'd like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition.

As a musician you have to keep one foot back in the past and have one foot forward into the future.

I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.

Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that.

It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.

One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.

You can't steal a gift. Bird [Charlie Parker] gave the world his music, and if you can hear it you can have it.

I try to play the bare essence, to let everything be just what it's supposed to be.

The sign of a mature musician is knowing what not to play.

There have been two great revelations in my life: The first was bepop, the second was homeopathy.

Where there's no mutual respect, there's trouble!

So I’m your huntress and thief?” His hands slid down to cup the backs of my knees as he said with a roguish grin, “You are my salvation, Feyre.

We see what we want to see, and observation conforms to hypothesis.

The usefulness of the cup is its emptiness.

A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.

If fighting for working families is playing the women's card, you know what, deal me in.

Oftentimes an originator of new language forms is called 'pretentious' by jealous talents. But it ain’t whatcha write, it’s the way atcha write it.

Let authors write for glory and reward. The truth is well paid when she is sung and heard.

For a man who is in love with the existence, nothing is ordinary in life!

To struggle and battle and overcome and absolutely defeat every force designed against us is the only way to achieve.

Valuing a business is part art and part science.