Well, I think the Republican Party is the more populist party.

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.

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

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.

Keep moving forward! You don't need permission from anyone in order to move on your own father's land! Go ahead and take the lead!

Worry is like a rocking chair-it keeps you busy but gets you nowhere.

I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.

We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.

The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done.

Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.

Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes.

The moment we become uncomfortable is the time we should confess.

If you want to be a better musician, hang out with a computer coder.

The microspeed of the tongue ought to be always slightly less than the microspeed of the thoughts and certainly not ever the reverse.