Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope.

People have been starving for intellectual fodder, but the best way to get people to close their eyes and not say anything is to tell them that they're not smart enough to comprehend.

I've had experiences where people say, 'I hated jazz before I heard you guys!' I'm like, 'You didn't hate jazz before you heard us, you hated the idea of jazz.'

I used to play until 4 o'clock in the morning.My dad would go nuts - he'd scream and say the cops are gonna come and break our instruments.

Fishing is not like billiards, in which it is possible to attain a disgusting perfection.

The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.

Poland should be strong and prosperous and independent and play its proper role as a great nation in the heart of Europe.

I was going to study at the Sorbonne and become a diplomat. Being a diplomat comes in handy when you are dealing with record companies.

Pompeii has nothing to teach us, we know crack of volcanic fissure, slow flow of terrible lava, pressure on heart, lungs, the brain about to burst its brittle case (what the skull can endure!)

Education is at a turning point

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

True worth is as inevitably discovered by the facial expression, as its opposite is sure to be clearly represented there. The human face is nature's tablet, the truth is certainly written thereon.

I was writing the Paraguay book, a Paragauyan told me that only five thousand people in Paraguay read.

The diffusion of taste is not the same thing as the improvement of taste.