Majestic mighty Wealth is the holiest of our gods.
The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity.
I tried practicing for a few weeks and ended up playing too fast.
Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.
Milton, of all people, gave the most perfect definition of the state of mind required to play jazz: ' with wanton heed and giddy cunning. ' That's how you play jazz.
I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to sound like a dry martini.
Complexity can be a trap. You can have a ball developing a phrase, inverting it, playing it in different keys and times and all. But it's really more introspective than communicative. Like a crossword puzzle compared to a poem.
Although our eyes can not penetrate the darkness of the future, scientific geopolitical analysis enables us to make certain predictions.
I never wanted to be commissioned to paint portraits. I like to choose my own subject and make a character study from it.
When Rome burned, the emperor's cats still expected to be fed on time.
The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.