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

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.

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.

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

I wanted to forgive my mom and my dad so badly for the deep hurt they caused, the fear their broken marriage invoked in me, but I also didn’t want to pretend anymore. Pretending is exhausting.

Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents.

Every new morning is new moment in time.

Good writers can't die. Their words live on forever.

It is not the the bruises on the body that hurt. It is the wounds of the heart and the scars on the mind.

Sleepwalking is the perfect exorcise for lazy people

Great minds think alike, but lovers think as one.

I saw...a kid on a leash. You seen these people? Kid on a leash? How horrible. Put him in the pound where he belongs.

It's safer to do nothing and know why you doing it, than to do something and don't know why you do it.

The election of John F Kennedy will lead to the death of a free church and a free state.