I remember mother saying : Inventors are like poets, a trashy lot
Why do you have to retire at 65? Why can't you start at 70? You know, like wine. Why can't music be that way? My new band, we're playing stuff that's never been done before.
You don't have to live the blues to play the blues.
When you get cancer, it's like really time to look at what your life was and is, and I decided that everything I've done so far is not as important as what I'm going to do now.
If you're in jazz and more than ten people like you, you're labeled commercial.
Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don't have to sacrifice.
My father's father came from Russia; my mother came from Romania.
If you're beautiful you don't need clothes. If you're ugly like me, you're like a house with no foundations; you need something to build you up.
Cinderella? Snow White? What's that? An illness?
No conventional therapy can release us from a deep and abiding psychic pain. Through prayer we find what we cannot find elsewhere: a peace that is not of this world.
There is only one I actually. That I is Consciousness. When you follow the personal I to the source, it turns into the universal I, which is Consciousness. Begin to catch yourself. begin to realize your divine nature. You do this by keeping quiet. The fastest way to realization is to keep quiet.