Chick Corea

Miles Davis was a part of my life from 1947 on. I was born in 1941 and I first heard him in 1947 on a 78 rpm. And then I followed his career, starting with his first solo album in 1951. He was an icon and inspiration and a mentor to me.

You don’t have to be Picasso or Rembrandt to create something. The fun of it, the joy of creating, is way high above anything else to do with the art form.

I’ve noticed that the more adventurous and in that mode that I am, it seems that the more the audience really likes it.

I call myself a teacher because they want me to call myself a teacher, but actually, what I’m doing is I’m studying.

My one thing is I continue to be interested and want to be a student. I don’t want to be a master. When I’m learning something, I’m in my element.

I got a chance to listen to and watch Thelonious Monk and his quartet play two shows a night, for six weeks. It was a great education. There was my university, man.

Breakups are a horrible thing for almost everybody I know. For someone who is a love addict, it’s debilitating.

I think careful cooking is love, don’t you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who’s close to you is about as nice a Valentine as you can give.

I don’t think members of the royal family sign prenuptial agreements

If I was your wife Sir, I’d poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I’d let you!

Usually I’m on top to keep the guy from escaping.

Relationships are truly like a garden, if you tend it, water it, weed it and feed it, it will grow into a beautiful garden. If you only go out there every few weeks to look it over for a few moments, what do you think it’s going to look like in a few months? It’s going to be a weed patch. It will disappear.

I like a woman who takes care of herself – it says something about the way she’ll care for me.

A lot of people believe what other people say.

A lover cannot be chosen a la smorgasbord. A lover has to be chosen from soul-craving. To choose just because something mouthwatering stands before you will never satisfy the hunger of the soul-self. And that is what the intuition is for; it is the direct messenger of the soul.

Never put more in a relationship than you can afford to lose.

Much healing can occur through the sexual act with a person you love and trust if the two of you can stay with each other during your most vulnerable moments. You enter into a sacred space, this unknown territory, from which you’ll emerge into new and unexpected states of being.

True friends stab you in the front.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt

My boyfriend and I live together, which means we don’t have sex-ever. Now that the milk is free, we’ve both become lactose intolerant.

I’ve always said, ‘If you need Viagra, you’re probably with the wrong girl.