Insomniacs know better than anyone how it would be to haunt a house.
For suddenly, I saw you there And through foggy London town The sun was shining everywhere.
Life is a lot like jazz. . . it's best when you improvise.
True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time.
Originality is the only thing that counts. But the originator uses material and ideas that occur round him and pass through him. And out of his experience comes the original creation.
The composer does not sit around and wait for an inspiration to walk up and introduce itself…Making music is actually little else than a matter of invention aided and abetted by emotion. In composing we combine what we know of music with what we feel.
I like to think of music as an emotional science.
Self-realization is a process of permanent auto-creation, an elaboration of the new man at the expense of the old.
Stop giving energy to the things you don't want.
What we drug people have, that you don't, is repeatability.
I want to use whatever connections to get a super-outstanding Basquiat in the White House. It could be one of mine. It could be something that a friend owns.