The recollection of how, when and where it all happened became vague as the lingering strains hung in the rafters of the studio. I wanted to shout back at it, Maybe I didn't write you, but I found you.

Never play anything that don't sound right. You might not make any money, but at least you won't get hostile with yourself.

I'm singing the music publisher's theme song - it ain't a commercial.

The recollection of how, when and where it all happened became vague as the lingering strains hung in the rafters of the studio. I wanted to shout back at it, Maybe I didn't write you, but I found you.

I know Mother named me after a railroad man, but it's too late now, I'm afraid. Much, much too late.

This exploded in me almost more music than I could consume.

Ragtime was my lullaby.

In Hollywood, the rainbow hits the ground for composers.

I don't think I'll ever be president of anything.

In Hollywood the rainbow hits the ground for composers.

Authors will make far more on those ebooks through direct sales than publishers are offering. There is no incentive for authors to sell those rights to traditional publishers which means, in the fairly short term, publishers run out of material to sell.

Wing Chun is not a game; Its for survival.. for fighting.We don't hit and then wait. No wait.. Once we move, we dont give a chance.

The Quartets have been a major part of my work.

None of us is certain about the outcome of the Arab Spring.

I learned French before I learned Spanish.

Ed Sullivan will be around as long as someone else has talent.

On the other hand, chess is a mass sport now and for chess organisers shorter time control is obviously more attractive. But I think that this control does not suit World Championship matches.

If people grow things themselves, their children understand, then schools in the area know that this community's generating something with its own energy, to consume.

God made me an Indian.

Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.

I think there's little things you can do with a dermatologist that can stave off major, giant surgery, which is really scary. But I'm all for, if something's bothering you, fix it. At least talk to somebody to see what it would take to fix it, and see if that's for you or not.

Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.

If you want what you're saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody's life. Your own, first.

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.

Maybe I'm an elitist, but I don't feel like I am.

I wasn't there to compete. I was there to win.

I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.

Usually, when I see films that don't have any score attached to them, I think they're beautiful. I love just the naked sound of the voice. That's already music.

The goal you set must be challenging. At the same time, it should be realistic and attainable, not impossible to reach. It should be challenging enough to make you stretch, but not so far that you break.

I think it would be an extreme poverty indeed if there weren't more than one person willing to compete for the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party.

If you keep on buying things made by child slaves in such conditions, you are equally responsible for the perpetration of slavery.

One of the nicest things I ever read about our show was that a critic felt 'Boardwalk Empire' could be the beginning of the blur between television and cinema, because the production values are so high and the storytelling is so compelling.

Although I'm not particularly troubled myself, I do have a lot of empathy for troubled characters.

I will go through these style phases. I think it's confusing in some ways. People like bands to be really consistent.