Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
Can anybody be given creativity? No. Only equipment to develop it if it's in them in the first place.
Learn the rules and then break them in such a way as to exercise good taste.
When people ask me how is it I was a musician, I facetiously say that I'm a firm believer in reincarnation and in a previous life I was Johann Sebastian Bach's guide dog.
I always tell people, it took me 10 minutes and 35 years in the business. I get tired of playing it ["Lullaby of Birdland"], but not of collecting the royalties.
I haven't written an awful lot recently, but I think I probably will start again very shortly. Being so much on the road, when you have a couple of weeks off, you're likely to avoid sitting at the piano, and taping, and giving yourself more work to do.
If you establish an identity, you build a monster-and thats right, youve got to live with it. Of course, you can enjoy it, too.
Honestly, there was a time after I came out that I really did not think I would be working again.
The best penance is to have patience with the sorrows God permits. A very good penance is to dedicate oneself to fulfill the duties of everyday with exactitude and to study and work with all our strength.
It's more paine to doe nothing then something.
Take some time each day to bring clarity to your inner world.