The time is coming when all men will see that the gift of God to the soul is not a vaunting, overpowering, excluding sanctity, buta sweet, natural goodness, a goodness like thine and mine, and that so invites thine and mine to be and to grow.
The idea that recording itself is an instrument.
Within the context of Western music, jazz has always contained certain radical or revolutionary aspects. These are: improvisation, collective composition and individuality or the personal sound (based on amazing variations in sonority, timbre and pitch).
Say you are doing a portrait and the face is perfectly done, but the rest of it is done in brushstrokes. That is sort of like what might happen in the films.
You have to act and this is something that happened in abstract expressionism too, it was a discovery particularly in De Kooning's paintings, great paintings. There's a lot of speed in his work and the speed produces things that only speed can produce.
Speed is a way to escape consciousness and just act.
When you narrow down your range and are looking through just that narrow aperture of the lens, the intensity of what you see is so much greater.
God does not guide those who want to run their own life. He only guides those who admit their need of His direction and rely on His wisdom.
We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it.
I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
I was never in the office [of Rolling Stone]. It was very different from Lampoon, where we spent a lot of time together socially, which is to say "drunk. "