To me, jazz is the closest thing to insanity that there is in music.
All growth, including political growth, is the result of risk-taking.
In an intellectual revolution there must be ideas and advocates willing to challenge an entire profession, the establishment itself, willing to spend their reputations and careers in spreading the idea through deeds as well as words.
The only thing wrong with the U. S. economy is the failure of the Republican Party to play Santa Claus.
There are basically two approaches to solving the problem of terrorism. One is that you understand the mind of the terrorist in order to establish defenses against it. The other is that you kill all the terrorists and all the potential terrorists.
Remember, the political idea being expressed a year ago was that because the GOP interpreted its 1994 mandate as a call to budget-balancing austerity, the electorate would never give the White House to the GOP if its nominee was also a root-canal austerian.
Bend like the willow, winds gonna blow you hard and cold tonight. Life as it happens, nobody warns you, willow hold on tight.
I don't necessarily love all the collaborations that I've done; the more I work with other people, the more I realize that I want to work with myself.
If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC
Weird, but sometimes I feel more like my cartoon character than I do Lizzie because she's a little more edgy and snappy.