Chick Corea

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

The sound of the orchestra is one of the most magnificent musical sounds that has ever existed.

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.

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 get interested in the various ways that music is being done in the culture, and some of it I like thoroughly enough to want to learn about it. The way I have been successful at doing that is to become part of it.

The fact that an artist is experiencing the joy of creation makes me feel like we’re in it together.

Jesus tapped me on the shoulder and said, Bob, why are you resisting me? I said, I’m not resisting you! He said, You gonna follow me? I said, I’ve never thought about that before! He said, When you’re not following me, you’re resisting me.

In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.

It was the schoolboy who said, Faith is believing what you know ain’t so.

The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one’s humdrum life into one of art.

I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.

Did we believe a final Reckoning and Judgment; or did we think enough of what we do believe, we would allow more Love in Religion than we do; since Religion it self is nothing else but Love to God and Man. He that lives in Love lives in God, says the Beloved Disciple: And to be sure a Man can live no where better. It is most reasonable Men should value that Benefit, which is most durable. Now Tongues shall cease, and Prophecy fail, and Faith shall be consummated in Sight, and Hope in Enjoyment; but Love remains.

If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

It is the final proof of God’s omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

As I reminded my girls, these aren’t problems. These are very high class problems. Because of where Barack and I come from, we just couldn’t sympathize with their… It was like, ‘Girl, you live in the White House. You do not get to complain about this.

Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

What was never lost can never be found.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

God, grant us our desires, and grant them quickly.

We are desire. It is the essence of the human Soul, the secret of our existence. Absolutely nothing of human greatness is ever accomplished without it. Not a symphony has been written, a mountain climbed, an injustice fought, or a love sustained apart from desire. Desire fuels our search for the life we prize. – John Elderidge

The instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.