The first thing I ever heard about synthesizers, they were being used in rock.

Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.

The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.

Don't be afraid to expand yourself, to step out of your comfort zone. That's where the joy and the adventure lie.

You would not exist if you did not have something to bring to the table of life.

Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference.

Forget about trying to compete with someone else. Create your own pathway. Create your own new vision.

I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn.

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

The most valuable things in life are priceless. They are courage, compassion, wisdom, respect for ourselves and others, and a host of characteristics that we call the beauty of the human spirit.

It was as if they had climbed the last hill in creation.

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.

For those who possess and can wield arms are in a position to decide whether the constitution is to continue or not

We elected a President, not a Pope.

Science is like literature, a continuing dialog among diverse and conflicting voices, no one ever wholly right or wholly wrong, but a steady conversation forever provisional and personal and living.

If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure of life itself is for the time lost.

My cocktail, so to speak, was only EPO, but not a lot, transfusions and testosterone.

The best physique I ever had was when I was ballet dancing.

To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.

When you create you get a little endorphin rush. Why do you think Einstein looked like that?