To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.

Life without music is unthinkable.

It is the artists of the world, the feelers and the thinkers who will ultimately save us; who can articulate, educate, defy, insist, sing and shout the big dreams.

The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second fiddle with enthusiasm

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.

A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers.

I can't live one day without hearing music, playing it , studying it , or thinking about it .

I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.

But in this crowd, my blond ponytail stood out like a crescent moon in a midnight sky.

Tough times make tough people.

All small returns are noise. To transcend the noise and the risk, seek outsized returns from technological paradigms.

A good proof is one that makes us wiser.

Geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats, undoubtedly ranks, in the scale of the sciences, next to astronomy.

Bill Evans described his tunes as vehicles; they are vehicles for self-expression, or expression of the self.

Man invented the gods. Then the gods went off on their own, but not far.

Love is ultimate, the highest health, because love makes one whole. When you love a master by and by you completely forgot about love.

Funny how it kept hitting me, like each new thing was a surprise. When was I going to stop being surprised?

There are hundreds of credible reports, many with multiple witnesses, of humanoids in association with landed spacecraft.