Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery.
I'm seeking to have an art that is engaged as a way for saying, 'Hurray for unity.
Is jazz a rhythm, or is it a vibration?
Everybody in America is angry about something.
I have learned through time that not everyone is interested in the kinds of things that fascinate me.
For the most basic assumption that dictated my early attempts to respond to creative music commentary was the mistaken belief that western journalists had some fundamental understanding of black creativity—or even western creativity—but this assumption was seriously in error.
I had never thought that I would be involved in narrative structures. As a young guy, I was more interested in abstract modeling. But as I got older, I began to see that there was no reason to limit myself to any intellectual or conceptual postulate, when in fact I'm a professional student of music.
I think the guy who gets the least chatter, given how high his chances are of winning the nomination, is Ted Cruz.
I think what he loved about me the most was that I wasn't part of that world. But once we were together publicly, he wanted to change me into that social animal.
Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.
For Europeans a president having an affair, especially in France, is a joke. No one cares, it would never bring this kind of trouble to a country.