I don't know anybody that's not emotionally unstable or schizophrenic.
To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.
The red and white and starry blue Is freedom's shield and hope.
I am happy now, to recall that I was not only his son but his companion, and whenever there was a hunting expedition or any other pleasure, I was always with him.
Dance as though no one is watching. Love as though you've never been hurt. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth.
Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing.
A band is only as good as its euphonium section.
Clutter is not an attribute of information, clutter is a failure of design. . . fix the design rather than stripping all the detail out of the map.
I've observed that if individuals who prevail in a highly competitive environment have any one thing in common besides success, it is failure—and their ability to overcome it.
We've continued progress in the six months since Trump got elected, and the good thing about what we're doing is that success begets success. As we bring down greenhouse gases, for example, we've closed half of the coal-fired power plants in the country in recent years. There's more impetus to try to close the other half because you can see that it is working. So, you know, I had hoped that Trump would not do that, and it doesn't make any sense to me, but regardless, it is not as cataclysmic as it could be.
Ships are to little purpose without skillful Sea Men.