You'll find little schools of musicians experimenting with different ways of making music in Brooklyn, all through Manhattan, in Queens, in Jersey, you know? The city is still bubbling with creativity.
The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.
Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.
The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.
A middling talent makes for a more serene life.
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
. . . when I left the stage door and sought my orientation among real people I was in a wilderness of unpredictables in an unchoreographed world.
Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people's children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.
If anybody is so mad at Vladimir Putin, you know what they could do? They could advocate for a gas tax. He gets all his leverage from selling gas and oil. If we had a gas tax that made that less palatable, he would be less of a player on the world stage.
Obviously if you're playing some of the smartest men in the world, you want to sound really smart.