Music can't save the world, but can make one a little calmer.

I am an improviser, ... I improvise music. Whatever you want to call it all, it is all improvised music. I may capture it and go back and write it down for others, but it was originally improvised.

There is no luck; you've got to make your luck. You've got to always be prepared-without trying to.

Music is not everything in life. If a young musician looks at it that way, then he can just play his instrument like putting a nail into a wall.

Simply the best! Great music, extremely entertaining.

But I end up with these bands who have players from literally all over the world.

in principle and reality, libraries are life-enhancing palaces of wonder

I actually haven't been on many dates, but I like just chilling around at home and watching a movie with a girl.

When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.

We are surrounded by insurmountable opportunities

For senators to complain that they didn't know this was happening, we had many, many meetings that have been both classified and unclassified that members have been invited to.

What we call little things are merely the causes of great things.

When a great man has become petrified, and everyone begins to proclaim his greatness, he has already turned into a puppet.

Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness

Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent.

Every leap forward that I make is by reaching back and firmly getting a footing in the past, and pushing forward as hard as I can.