I have to get out once a week and speak with people or I start thinking I'm the emperor of Abyssinia.
All you've got to do is keep your ears open.
Music is the only thing keeping the planet together
Music is in the air; it's my job to pull it out.
I'm not a star. I'll never be a Frank Sinatra or Elvis Presley or a Ray Charles. I'm just an imitator, man. I'm doing a very bad imitation on the bass of Jerry Jemmott, Bernard Odum, Jimmy Fielder, Jimmy Blanton, Igor Stravinsky, Jimi Hendrix, John Coltrane, James Brown, Charlie Parker. . . the cats, man. I'm just backing up the cats.
A chimpanzee could learn what I do physically, but it goes way beyond that. When you play, you play life.
The secret to the sound is to drop the bass on the floor!
I was blessed with a God-given talent and my mother raised me the right way.
The astronomer is, in some measure, independent of his fellow astronomer; he can wait in his observatory till the star he wishes to observe comes to his meridian; but the meteorologist has his observations bounded by a very limited horizon, and can do little without the aid of numerous observers furnishing him contemporaneous observations over a wide-extended area.
So, Fabricius, I already have this: that the most true path of the planet [Mars] is an ellipse, which Dürer also calls an oval, or certainly so close to an ellipse that the difference is insensible.
Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.