Ego & Hype have no place in business.
A teacher's hardest lesson is to limit his explanation to the minimum.
Dancing is the body made poetic.
I would rather instill in my amateur students love, than knowledge, of music. Left with only knowledge, they will at the end close their books and consign the course to forgetfulness. But if they have learned to love but the smallest part of the art, they are likely to pursue some phase of it the rest of their lives.
A man in music, as one in love, either lives it or talks about it; seldom both.
The Artist should not forget his mission, perhaps the most religious of all, of sustaining faith in the worthwhileness of art and thus of life.
I don't think that there would be more users if drugs were legalized.
The worst-tempered people I've ever met were people who knew they were wrong.
I found my first novel difficult. I don't want to make it sound like it's any more difficult than driving a cab or going to any other job, but there are so many opportunities for self-doubt, that you just kind of need to soldier on.
I've been around a long time, and it seemed for the longest time like I was the young guy. Now, all of a sudden, I've got fans with beards telling me, "I used to watch you when I was a kid. " So, I don't know what happened to all those years, but the little bit I do remember? It was definitely a fun ride.