The fact is there are few more popular subjects than mathematics. Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune.
To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.
In short, [Coltrane's] tone is beautiful because it is functional. In other words, it is always involved in saying something. You can't separate the means that a man uses to say something from what he ultimately says. Technique is not separated from its content in a great artist.
Doesn't that fool know I recorded that song because I like it?
Improvisation is the ability to talk to oneself.
Rhythm is the life of space of time danced through.
To feel is perhaps the most terrifying thing in this society.
Only this shimmeriness is the real living. The shape is a dead crust. The shimmer is inside really.
Military pay has been allowed to lag behind to the point where career enlisted men with families to feed have been forced to resort to food stamps.
I own myself the friend to a very free system of commerce, and hold it as a truth, that commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive and impolitic - it is also a truth, that if industry and labour are left to take their own course, they will generally be directed to those objects which are the most productive, and this in a more certain and direct manner than the wisdom of the most enlightened legislature could point out.
It is clear that economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science.