Nature was my kindergarten.

With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds.

Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed.

Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it.

Whenever I heard the song of a bird and the answering call of its mate, I could visualize the notes in scale, all built up within my consciousness as a natural symphony.

My big ears indicated a talent for music. This thrilled me.

If my serenade of song and story should serve as a pillow for some composer's head, as yet perhaps unborn, to dream and build on our fond melodies in his tomorrow, I have not labored in vain.

I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee.

You can never tell what's in a woman's mind, And if she's from Harlem, there's no use o' tryin

Saving was slow and painful.

You'll never miss the water 'til the well runs dry.

The gracious moment a given time.

Do your duty until it becomes your joy.

Where the Old Masters created an illusion of space into which one could imagine walking, the illusion created by a Modernist is one into which one can look, can travel through, only with the eye.

Diamonds are forever.

I want to win some Super Bowls, and so thats really my focus, to do whatever I have to do to lead this team to a championship.

You will find hardly any improvising on camera anywhere in my films. It's very structured, but it's all worked out from elaborate improvisations over a long period, as you know.

People would ask me why I was doing what I was doing - but I always told them that I just loved to skate. There was no other explanation.

Technology at present is covert philosophy; the point is to make it overtly philosophical.

The danger inherent in all force grows stronger when it is likely to gain success, for then it becomes temptation.