Whoever heard of an electric violin, electric cello or, for that matter, an electric singer?

The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.

Whoever heard of an electric violin, electric cello or, for that matter, an electric singer?

When one puts up a building one makes an elaborate scaffold to get everything into its proper place. But when one takes the scaffold down, the building must stand by itself with no trace of the means by which it was erected. That is how a musician should work.

Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man.

You know what I think? If I am tired now, I don't mind, because I have eternity to rest.

Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.

The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.

I've had three wives and three guitars. I still play the guitars.

The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.

When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, be-cause there were no virtuoso guitarists.

The guitar is the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well.

The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color a different voice.

What you find is, you have to deliver a product that has value to the customer. When you do, and I think the wind community is getting much closer to that, customers will want it.

Perhaps I am old-fashioned, but black and white films still hold an affectionate place in my heart; they have an incomparable mystique and mood.

Since September 11, the U.S. has significantly improved its security to prevent another attack.

What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school but at a different way of looking at the world and learning.

There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.

I'm not going to put my energy into dunking every time I get the ball. That's stupid.

In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.

I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.

Ah, political physics. Someone wins an election and, poof, they are a candidate for vice president. Ridiculous.

Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.

Protect IP (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) are a step towards a different kind of Internet. They are a step towards an Internet in which those with money and lawyers and access to power have a greater voice than those who don't.

The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity.

When you have insomnia youre never really asleep and youre never really awake.

On my first TV job I didn't have a clue. They'd tell me to hit my mark and I had no idea what they meant. You just pick it up. And ultimately, all it's really about is pretending to be someone else.

A large proportion of my best friends are a little bit crazy...I try to be cautious with my friends who are too sane. Depression is itself destructive and it breeds destructive impulses I am easily disappointed in people who dont get it

Simply by starting to cook again you declare your independence from the culture of fast food. As soon as you cook you start thinking about ingredients. You start thinking about plants and animals and not the microwave. And you will find that your diet just by that one simple act that is greatly improved.

Soaps are the best. They really are. If you can do a soap, well, you can do anything. You have to learn pages of dialogue very quickly.

If the weather's nice, I like to be outside exercising, but when it's colder, I'm a real homebody and I catch up on my reading.

I experienced the heat when I was playing for Madrid. If we went to places like Sevilla early on in the season it was unbearable. Usually you can feel it on pre-season tours in places like Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Jakarta. The humidity levels are unreal, but this is different, the first game of the World Cup.

Our uniqueness, our individuality, and our life experience molds us into fascinating beings. I hope we can embrace that. I pray we may all challenge ourselves to delve into the deepest resources of our hearts to cultivate an atmosphere of understanding, acceptance, tolerance, and compassion. We are all in this life together.

I MISTRUST THE JUDGMENT OF EVERY MAN IN A CASE IN WHICH HIS OWN WISHES ARE CONCERNED.

I decided early on that I wanted to participate in the greater American experience, rather than the parochial one in Mississippi. But I have an urge as a writer to meld the Southern experience into the larger American one.

We need to recognize our agreements and disagreements with whomever is chosen as president, but we can't continue to just stall out in Washington just because it's not who I voted for. We have still an obligation and duty to challenge and to work through.

This day and age, you look at baseball as a whole, and not just the pitchers' side of it. You have the weight programs, you have the technology, and as a pitcher, you need to keep up.