That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty.

Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas.

I didn't know how well my first album had done; it was enough to get me to do the second album, which was a continuation of the music I'd worked on and perfected.

Our criteria for deciding what's good and what's bad is very fickle, especially in this country.

As musicians, and as people who sell material for people to hear and absorb, it's important that we use that voice wisely.

Remember: Always walk in the light. And if you feel like you're not walking in it, go find it. Love the light.

Once you're successful with a certain kind of music, it's hard not to have faith in it as a means to stay successful.

My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of today's music will come some sort of coalition that will become politically involved.

So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's.

I have been on diets that were supervised by doctors, that were carefully supervised where I lost weight.

That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty.

I've been overweight all my life.

Getting married is easy. Staying married is more difficult. Staying happily married for a lifetime should rank among the fine arts.

Both politicians and journalists face situations which strain their honesty and humanity. My opinion is that politicians on the average stand up somewhat better than journalists.

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

It was a department where you had honesty and integrity stamped right on you when you came into the Los Angeles Police Department. If you violated that, or if you were a dishonest cop, you were terrible. We got rid of you as quickly as possible.

I like honesty and fair play.

A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself.

Industry, economy, honesty, and kindness form a quartet of virtues that will never be improved upon.

I believe honesty comes across in music because for people that music isn't just something to dance to. For people for whom music is something that they feel, they understand what I'm talking about.

Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

Honesty is very sexy.

The important things are children, honesty, integrity and faith.

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.

Living in Washington, you can't take politics too seriously. I draw the line at honesty. I have no time for political hacks who say things they don't believe because they get paid to.

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.

Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.

Honesty will never break you.

A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.

I think the number one thing that I find important is the importance of honesty with your friends and your parents, if you can be. But I think that telling people how you really feel, being who you truly are, being safe and taking care of yourself is the most important thing.

A friend to honesty and a foe to crime.

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

Honesty is the best policy.

I am a very conscientious golfer. I count every stroke. I learned to play that way. That is the only way I can play. It taught me to be honest. There is no greater virtue than honesty.

He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

Surely the President can agree with us, that theft from government is not good. I know it's bold. It's out on the edge. I know from a Chicago-Springfield background it's hard to fully grasp that honesty could be part of government.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

I'd like to introduce someone who has just come into my life. I've admired him for 35 years. He's someone who represents integrity, honesty, art, and on top of that stuff I'm actually sleeping with him.

Honesty is something you can't wear out.

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.

Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.

When I do documentaries, my best information ends up on the cutting-room floor. People have trouble dealing with sexual honesty.

And so it's inescapable and people who proclaim scrupulous honesty can only proclaim that if they don't examine closely the things they believe.

All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.