“By the way, this tells you why Auto-Tuned vocals on many contemporary records sound so shallow and lifeless. Its almost as if everything we learned from African American music during the twentieth ...”

“In every sphere of social interaction, that hermeneutic leapthat ability to put yourself in the mind frame of the otheris a virtue and a blessing.”

“Art and disease proliferate via contagion, and similar conditions favor both.”

“The work of art always requires us to adapt to itand in this manner can be distinguished from escapism or shallow entertainment, which instead aims to adapt to the audience, to give the public exac...”

“The work of art always requires us to adapt to it—and in this manner can be distinguished from escapism or shallow entertainment, which instead aims to adapt to the audience, to give the public exa...”

“In every sphere of social interaction, that hermeneutic leap—that ability to put yourself in the mind frame of the other—is a virtue and a blessing.”

“In this world, there are instruments to acquire instruments; here, there is the instrument to attain the Final Goal (Self Realization).”

“In this world, there are instruments to acquire instruments; ‘here’, there is the instrument to attain the Final Goal (Self Realization).”

“There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly. ”

“If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.”

“Jazz is not just 'Well, man, this is what I feel like playing.' It's a very structured thing that comes down from a tradition and requires a lot of thought and study.”