New Orleans is the only city in the world you go in to buy a pair of nylon stockings they want to know your head size.

If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.

Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.

The difficult I'll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.

You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.

I don't think I'm singing. I feel like I'm playing a horn...What comes out is what I feel.

Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.

I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.

Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All dope can do for you is kill you - and kill you the long, slow, hard way.

I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close order drill, or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.

People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.

She, as no other ever could, reached every corner of his heart. His joy, and his salvation.

The occasion is piled high with difficulty. We must rise to the occasion.

Microkernels are not a pipe dream. They represent proven technology.

The question of painting is bound up with epistemology, with the engagement of the viewer, with what the viewer may learn.

There is nothing pleasurable except what is in harmony with the utmost depths of our divine nature.

I don’t think it matters what I believe, only what I do.

Sometimes I think candor is the only kindness.

The worst defect in the world would be to consider yourself free from faults. Being too greatly saddened by one's faults can come from having one's pride humiliated.

Security will produce danger.

A Smile is a curve which can set a lot of things straight.