You know, face painting in non-Western cultures is a sign of collectivism, is a sign of one representing the community, it's not unique at all.

Well, dojo is a traditional Japanese word for training hall.

So okay, I accepted, and I realized while working for that concert that I'd been missing something very important and vital to me, and that something was music.

We were doing performance art as far back as 1965, just not calling it that.

I've been informed by both sides, jazz, western music, Asian music, African music, all sides, because I've been interested in the sound of the universe, and that sound is without limit.

It took me a long time to reach the decision to retire, actually, from the Art Ensemble.

Well, actually, I don't consider myself a jazz legend or anything.

In 1993, I retired from the Art Ensemble of Chicago to devote myself full time to Buddhist studies and to the practice of Aikido.

The Vision Festival was packed every night, always has been for the four years it's been happening.

People doing the kind of sound research that I'm interested in still have a difficult time.

In fact, since no one's been interested in my work, I took the responsibility recently to invest in my own work, so I'm producing a concert that was done at the Vision Festival in May.

As he drove away from his handiwork, knowing he'd left no survivors, the killer looked at the rising smoke and gave himself a pat on the back for another assignment well done...

with ringworm, lice bites, and a million bugs. Men so sick they are dying

This new baseball is like a golf ball. I think there are going to be a lot more dents put in the wall at Fenway Park this year.

I just made a balls of it, old boy. That's all there was to it.

Be modest. A lot was accomplished before you were born.

You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the greater dupe, he or you?

I'm an artist first and foremost. So things are gonna go up and down and sideways and whichever way all through life.

Any heart turned Godward feels more joyIn one short hour of prayer, than e'er was raisedBy all the feasts of earth since its foundation.

When you start in movie business... It is a business, actually. Nothing to do with art. Picasso is art, and Giacometti, but film acting is no art. Just the luck of being discovered, maybe.

Shame is pride's cloak.