I do not, as a rule, do encores. When I have finished playing, I have indeed finished playing. I have nothing left; there has been no reserve.

Fear is the biggest motivator.

If you are you, 24 hours a day, then you do not have to remember who you are supposed to be in different situations - something that I imagine could be troublesome.

I think people who sample are cheating. It is like people who do collages. Use all of your own stuff.

In the middle 1940s... I heard everyone live. Painting, the theater; everything was happening. It was an exciting time when New York was the place to be.

While everyone has a right to his or her opinion, the people who are informed have more of a right.

I have been going to Italy since 1980, but I always went to do work. I did not live overseas, because I do not like running around with everything I own in a paper bag.

If I had money, I would like to get an old building, have music performances, do lithographs, have shows of paintings, and do those things that I'm interested in doing.

Most of my recorded material has been in small group configurations. I have not released large orchestral works as recordings because it hasn't been within the realm of possibility.

If I produce it, I will stage it as a performance. A small audience will be invited; rehearsals of the sections will be done in the mornings, and those sections will be recorded in the afternoons.

Let go of the pain. But never forget the past.

Few secret undertakings ever did any nation any good.

Well, my dear fellow what did you expect, champagne?

The difference between Liberty and liberties is as great as God and gods.

There's chaos out there and chaos means opportunity.

History is an argument without end.

It's pronounced 'Romaine,' like the lettuce.

Here I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain.

The way those clubs shift against Ted Williams, I can't understand how he can be so stupid not to accept the challenge to him and hit to left field.

First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.