I don't believe we're the party of big business.

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.

As a leader, you have to disbelieve what you can’t do. It’s by so doing that you can believe in what you can do. It’s only by disbelieving that it can fly that the horse keeps galloping!

Every transgression and disobedience receives a just recompense of reward, except with those who truly love themselves.

Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.

If we do not suffer a loss all the way to the end, it will wait for us. It won’t just dissipate and disappear. Rather, it will fester, and we will experience its sorrow later, in stranger forms.

The majority of people who keel over dead at concerts are killed by a long trumpet passage.

I think as you grow up, you realize you have obligations just in your life - being a citizen, being part of humanity - to help other people, to help your country, to help the world.

To love life through our labor is to be intimate with life's inmost secrets.

The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind.

It's a privilege to work with an artist that you really care for.

Outside of show business, I live a normal life.