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

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.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

Now in my theater training I showed no aptitude at all.

Escaping into a film is not like escaping into a book. Books force you to give something back to them to exercise your intelligence and imagination where as you can watch a film and even enjoy it in a state of mindless passivity.

Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.

One of the interesting things about skateboarding and graffiti is that skateboarding exists in the documentation of an act.

Grace is God as heart surgeon, cracking open your chest, removing your heart - poisoned as it is with pride and pain - and replacing it with his own.

The thing which grieves and oppresses my heart with respect to poor Scotland, is the hardness of heart manifest in the levity and cruelty with which they speak of others.

I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attention of people abroad.

Fashion for my mother was about asserting and demonstrating you had aesthetics, tastes, sensibility, manners, beauty - qualities that black people were always trying to prove they possessed, because it was often assumed that we didn't.

Mr. Obama's approach to engagement to some degree makes him dependent on people who wish neither him nor America well. This doesn't have to end badly and I hope that it doesn't - but it's not an ideal position after one's first year in power.

We incorporated new tastes and flavors into our kids' diets from a very early age, which helped to develop their palates and prevented them from becoming picky eaters. We don't buy junk food and give them options of fresh fruit, yogurt, raw almonds, or dried whole grain cereals for snack time.

I love 'Dr Strangelove.'

For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.

Make your important choices in life based on your values and your long term objectives rather than on a need for approval.

With the advent of radio and recording, music became an industry rather than just a tradition.

When I was younger, I barely left my room because I was busy watching clips of my favorite actors and performers on the Internet.

I don't really care about interruptions. I accept technology, and I don't turn things off. I've found a peace with fragmentation and a harmony with switching gears quickly to other things.

I am a very open person, and I'm always nervous of being misconstrued. Sitting in the middle of a restaurant makes me nervous. I feel like I'm being judged. And it's funny that I should feel that way.

Some prescient American collectors, including Vicki and Kent Logan and Mera and Donald Rubell, began collecting Chinese art before 2000 with a genuine passion, but as the auction prices exploded everyone was beating a path to the galleries and artist studios in China. It became the 'China thing.'

I don't like the idea that the first preparation when you start to design your building has to put your label. I think this is not fair. It's not fair to the building or to the people, to the client, because every building tells a different story.

I am trying to get right with God. I'm sort of making a statement about the excessiveness.

Suffocating in silence. Beneath the weight of unspoken words.

I took Beetle home thinking that after the Korean War was over, I would have to take him out of the Army. I thought, well, what am I going to do with him?

I am healthy.