If you've got a good vibrato, you can get away with a lot.

It's very easy to learn. And very difficult to master.

You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture.

If you've got a good vibrato, you can get away with a lot.

So I went out and bought Hard Again by Muddy Waters. That was a big learning curve. I listened to that album again and again and again. James Cotton was the harmonica player on that album.

Frank Morley, who had worked in London at Faber and Faber, was the new head of Harcourt Brace, and he hired me to start in 1940. The early years at Harcourt were wonderful. Almost my first assignment was Virginia Woolf's novel 'Between the Acts.'

Henson had never spoken to me about Kermit, but he had spoken to Frank Oz about the idea of me doing the character if he became too busy. I felt flattered.

If there is any truth to my parenting the dreamwork movement, it comes from the power of the press.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire to become a minister transformed itself into a wish to lead the more militant life of missionary, by a slow process or suddenly.

Though designed as a mere convenience, clothing sizes establish an unintended norm, an ideal from which deviations seem like flaws. There's nothing like a trip to the dressing room to convince a woman - fat, thin, or in between - that she's a freak.

I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend.

We were ready to launch Barry White, but the record company wouldn't put it out. Said it wouldn't sell.

I think we built the right future. If it's a choice between the flying car or the Internet, tablets and smartphones, I'll take what we've got.

Our U.S. audience is composed of globally-minded Americans, an elite category, the ones who do have passports, the decision-makers, senior ranks in the administration, senators on Capitol Hill.

I always wanted to be a dentist from the time I was in high school, and I was accepted to dental school in the spring of 1972. I was planning to go, but after the Olympics there were other opportunities.

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

I collect underwear from my travels. Lace, lingerie, bodysuits... they're like souvenirs.

As long as there are people in education making excuses for failure, cursing future generations with a culture of low expectations, denying children access to the best that has been thought and written, because Nemo and the Mister Men are more relevant, the battle needs to be joined.

Of all days, the day on which one has not laughed is the one most surely wasted.

When I was sixteen, I was an absolutely romantic guy. I fell in love every week. I mean, I was in love with everybody, but unfortunately, nobody was in love with me.

Take all the courses in your curriculum. Do the research. Ask questions. Find someone doing what you are interested in Be curious

Pau Gasol is extremely popular in Spain. I don't know how much he sells, but I get nothing in Spain. The money goes to the league, and they use it for whatever they choose to use it for to run the league.

I think documentary filmmakers need as much protection as possible under journalist's privilege. How else is the public to know what is going on?

Since my first dive in a deep-diving submersible, when I went down and turned out the lights and saw the fireworks displays, I've been a bioluminescence junky. But I would come back from those dives and try to share the experience with words, and they were totally inadequate to the task. I needed some way to share the experience directly.

The mind cannot long play the heart's role.

When I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world.

I do believe sadly it's going to take some diseases coming back to realize that we need to change and develop vaccines that are safe.

There are many other chakras or nadis as they are also called. There are chakras in the hands fingertips feet and a number of other areas.