I'd rather do my own performance than copy someone else's.
New surroundings have a way of returning attention to areas that may have become rote.
Art begins when an observer's sensibilities engage with the understatements of a calculating craftsman.
Does an artist truly need to understand her times in order to create? I'm not sure. We're all sitting in a context. It's a market.
Value choices are intuitive. . . It's fun to see how much you can get without leaning on contrast.
Once you sophisticate the in-betweens, your blacks and whites can take their solos and shine.
Going beyond one's backyard grants one perspective.
I'd love to do a live record, I'd love to do an acoustic record, I'm already thinking about what I may want to do with the next studio record.
We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
The S. S. Sierra was a ten-thousand-ton vessel. Today, lifeboats bigger than the Sierra are found on the Queen Mary and other luxury liners.
Bargains are the holy grail of the true stockpicker. The fact that 10 to 30 percent of our net worth is lost in a market sell-off is of little consequence. We see the latest correction not as a disaster but as an opportunity to acquire more shares at low prices. This is how great fortunes are made over time.