Let no one imagine that in owning a recording he has the music. The very practice of music is a celebration that we own nothing.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

Everything you do is music, and everywhere is the best seat.

The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.

The world is no longer a romantic place; some of its people still are however, and therein lies the promise. Don't let the world win.

It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

I have nothing to say, and I am saying it.

Good music can act as a guide to good living.

Look at everything. Don't close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see.

A stereotype becomes a stereotype when a significant percentage of the population appears to conform to it.

You can pursue your dreams by grace.

I have high hopes for the book and have already made a down payment on a Ferrari. Well, it’s actually a small metal model of a Ferrari, kind of like a Dinky Toy, but a little bit bigger.

Every person lives bounded by the structural formation of human anatomy and the provincial demands of the human condition.

Elvis, he was unique. And he loved the blues, it was a pity he didn't do more.

Left to my own devices I'd get up at midday every day of my life.

We are at that very point in time when a 400-year old age is rattling in its death bed and another is struggling to be born.

When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.

There is a natural partnership between State and Commerce, and the American business community to work together to educate the United States about marketing overseas.

I learned my realism from guys like Kafka.