We met with the poet Frank O'Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum of Modern Art, where we had hoped to do the readings.

Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful portraits that may still hang in Greenwich Village.

Today's trend ends up in tomorrow's landfill.

That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want to be appreciated for what they have done.

I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last.

The atmosphere was wide open in those circles that we traveled in.

In symphonic music, when you are conducting, you do the same thing. You are feeling the whole orchestra, thinking ahead so you can prepare for a change.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture.

A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington.

Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.

I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature.

We will be stronger, if we love each other.

I don't expect congratulations for successful beginning, what I want is the applaud at successful ending.

Men fear silence as they fear solitude because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness.

When I was five years old, me and my cousin got into a fistfight because when "That's the Way (I Like It)" came on the radio, he said, "That's my song," and I said, "No, that's my song."

A good rapper is a good rapper, a good album is a good album. I don't think anyone is inherently good.

The United States has, unfortunately, been victimized by terrorism going back decades.

the first step in claiming yourself is anger. You get mad. And you can't do anything before you get angry. And I recommend getting very angry to everyone, anyone.

I love performing live: it's my very favorite thing to do.

I am a fast cook. I have to be, as I am a busy person with many responsibilities and don't have a lot of time for cooking.

Because ENOUGH is TOO MUCH! And look around ...can you blame us?!