Jazz music is a style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the knowledge.
There are stereotypes and it is quite amazing how often members of bands seem to follow those stereotypes. Singers are all vain. Guitarists are all vain but won’t admit it. Bass players are quiet people, and drummers are very exciting people to be with.
Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It’s not 3,000. It’s tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children.
[On his mother] She certainly ran her own raceĀ I thought my mother was nuts.
Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn’t making mistakes that’s critical; it’s correcting them and getting on with the principal task.
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
I think for women especially, you need to have a plan. I need to have some other ways to generate income, so I don’t have to stretch my face or lift the top of my head with surgery or something.
Well, I’m not sure what pop psychology is, but I don’t like it.
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
I grew up not understanding what was true and what was not true. It gave me a sense of unreality.
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
No one wants to quit when he’s losing and no one wants to quit when he’s winning.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.
It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady.
The Russian people have their own cultural code, their own tradition.
I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.
Women are not a special interest group. They are half of this country and they are perfectly capable of making their own choices about their health.
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.
I stand for anti-bigotry, anti-Semitism, and anti-racism.
A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.
