Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans.

As a musician you have to keep one foot back in the past and have one foot forward into the future.

I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.

I think one of the problems the Democrats have today is that they are an elitist party.

Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that.

It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.

One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.

You can't steal a gift. Bird [Charlie Parker] gave the world his music, and if you can hear it you can have it.

I try to play the bare essence, to let everything be just what it's supposed to be.

The sign of a mature musician is knowing what not to play.

There have been two great revelations in my life: The first was bepop, the second was homeopathy.

The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.

Oh, for the love of God. There is no agent more agent than you. I swear you have pin-striped ties encrypted into your DNA. When you die, the coffin is going to read Property of the FBI.

It's okay to lie as long as you reach a higher truth doing it.

The day is coming when, in 45 seconds, you can download a movie.

And, of course, the funniest food: "kumquats". I don't even bring them home anymore. I sit there laughing and they go to waste.

It makes sense to me that the polyglot wouldn't know what language he dreamed in.

I may not be great at geometry but I know one theorum. The longest distance between two points is you and your parents.

The reality shows are getting worse and worse. They’re out of control and have been for some time.

A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.

No outward doors of a man's house can in general be broken open to execute any civil process; though in criminal cases the public safety supersedes the private.