There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.
When you make music you are acting as a philosopher. You can either do that consciously or you can do it unconsciously, but you're doing it.
As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.
I like being moved. I don't like being pushed.
Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mail in the waste-basket, it should be saved for the dinner guests.
In the nature of the use of chance operations is the belief that all answers answer all questions.
With just one musician, you can really do an unlimited number of things on the inside of the piano, if you have at your disposal an exploded keyboard.
What I don't like today is, to put it coarsely, the phony Hasidism, the phony mysticism. Many students say, "Teach me mysticism. " It's a joke.
The newest books are those that never grow old.
If young people had love, hope, true education, the arts, full and meaningful lives they won’t join gangs. My life since living the gang and drugs has been directed to making positive what it means to be Chicano, human, man, woman, and on how to draw out the imagination and creativity that all people have.
Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black community.