I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion.

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.

I think one of the problems the Democrats have today is that they are an elitist party.

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.

Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans.

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.

These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb.

We are made wholeBy books, as by great spaces and the stars

[H]owever weak our country may be, I hope we shall never sacrifice our liberties.

Art is why I get up in the morning, but my definition ends there.

The least little bit can do so much.

Normal people do not create art.

Life is hard, money doesn't care, your tears don’t add value

The best-run churches and organizations are masters of the midcourse correction. They plan in pencil.

The more I read the Scriptures I find an overwhelming case of Scriptures being concerned with the poor, outcast, widow, foreigner and marginalized.

An attitude of philosophic doubt, of suspended judgment, is repugnant to the natural man. Belief is an independent joy to him.