I don't go around regretting things that don't happen.

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.

I don't care what other critics say, I only hope to be played.

I let her alone and when she got that finished she left me alone. We trusted each other.

In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.

I don't have to worry No matter what they do to it, it works.

I look at you and I write down what I hear.

I don't go around regretting things that don't happen.

Let your mind alone, and see what happens.

I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good.

Reviewing music or reviewing anything is a writing job. It's nice if you are experienced in the field you are writing about, but writing is what you are doing.

I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to avoid verbalization whenever you can.

Musicians own music because music owns them.

You explain how it went, and as far as you can figure out how it got that way.

Every composers music reflects in its subject matter and in its style the source of the money the composer is living on while writing the music.

I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Music itself is not going to let you down.

The moon, like a flower In heaven's high bower, With silent delight Sits and smiles on the night.

A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.

I want to be part of the storytelling that educates people and awakens a sense of compassion in other people of the kind of people they don't encounter in their daily lives very frequently.

When a gently born spinster has little money, her choices are few. She might receive an offer of marriage, but it's unlikely to be from a wealthy man, so she'll have a hard life trying to make ends meet for her growing family.

I really think we need to see how we can expand our privacy laws.

The baby boom is about to become a patient boom.

What I know is that we no longer have free enterprise capitalism in health care; it's not a system any longer where people are able to innovate. It's not based on voluntary exchange. The government is directing it.

Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference add that to cunning and it is knavery.

The strengthening of our statehood is, at times, deliberately interpreted as authoritarianism.

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he shall not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or too base for what he wants to offer.

Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.

The wise man is neither raised up by prosperity nor cast down by adversity; for always he has striven to rely predominantly on himself, and to derive all joy from himself.

I've done reasonably well over the last 10 years because I took the strategy of language and politics and applied it to the corporate world, which has never been done before.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches, the wrong comes when riches possess man.

Terrorism should be seen in the light of the country's security and not from the narrow perspective of caste, creed and religion.

Hanging may seem barbarous, but the greater barbarity lies in the slow abandonment of our common law traditions.

When you're on the road, you've got to have your four-track - or some kind of recording device to jam on and have a good time.

It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.

He who is greedy is disgraced he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated he who has no control over his tongue will often have to face discomfort.

Just as rust, which arose from the iron itself, wears out the iron, likewise, performing an action without examination would destroy us by projecting us into a negative state of existence.

I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make.

When youre having a bad day at work a lot of times its your head. When youre having good days a lot of times its the absence of the mind.

If aliens are really hanging out in our 'hood, it's hard to imagine any other fact more worthy of study. If not, then why does such a large fraction of the populace insist on believing they're here?