I just feel that music is a great life, because it's very rewarding. It's a gratification. You do this for yourself, and you also do this for other people.

All the money in the world is spent on feeling good.

No second chances in the land of a thousand dances, the valley of ten million insanities.

Bad music can make you weak.

You have to be around people you trust; otherwise you can't do anything - you're afraid, you're paranoid, and you can't do any work.

Los Angeles is not Mexico City, but we have many fine nightclubs and restaurants here. It is enough. One must not aim too high.

You're not born with certain skills; you have to acquire them.

Musicians understand each other through means other that speaking.

Beautiful tunes are all very good and fine, and great musicians are always great, but that alone isn't enough.

I always think you should push your envelope every chance you get.

Musicians communicate in other ways. That's just something you rely on.

Anything exceptional gets crushed by common people with jealousy and ignorance and all their common evils.

What if I told you, that consciousness is not in the body, body is embedded in the consciousness.

Life is a gift. Treat each moment with anticipation and gratitude.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

Patriotism requires less and less of making the eagle scream, but more and more of making him think.

I know, I know - you're a woman who's had a lot of tough breaks. Well, we can clean and tighten those brakes, but you'll have to stay in the garage all night.

It is the American air protection, which safeguards the freedom enjoyed by the Kurdish region. It guarantees the cultural, health and civilizational progress made in Iraqi Kurdistan.

I would also hope that no one would think about trying to amend the constitution as a political strategy.

Well, I like how people talk. I like language. You know, Linda Richman spoke in Yiddish.

He had her in his heart, but not always in his mind.