To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them.
I think President Obama really does get the value of the arts.
If you look at a record under a microscope, the high frequencies are short jagged edges. . . and the low frequencies are long swinging ones are deep bass sounds. When it cut it at half speed, you're getting more of those on the record.
When I finish an album and I find myself listening to it in the car, because it makes me feel a certain way, that's the time to try to let other people know about it.
It's - as opposed to tape where you have a magnetic tape that's excited by frequencies that you hit, digital was a process where musical sounds are transferred to numbers and stored as numbers.
Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived.
We always felt that if you do something with quality and integrity, then it's going to come back to you.
Topographically the country is magnificent - and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak.
If you have an idea of what you want to do in your future, you must go at it with almost monastic obsession. . . you have to go at it single-mindedly and let nothing get in your way.
Now, ideas are the raw material of progress. Everything first takes shape in the form of an idea. But an idea itself is worth nothing. An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything. The men who have won fame and fortune through having an idea are those who devoted every ounce of their strength and every dollar they could muster to putting it into operation. Ford had a big idea, but he had to sweat and suffer and sacrifice to make it work.
In the stock market. . . You can be right for the wrong reasons or wrong for the right reasons.