“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.”

“When stealing from other players, an older musician wisely advised me, choose a different instrument from your own, and people wont notice the theft.”

“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...”

“When we touch the place in our lives where sexuality and spirituality come together, we touch our wholeness and the fullness of our power, and at the same time our connection with a power larger th...”

“Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.”

“This time when we kiss, I feel it in the pit of my stomach, I feel it in my heart. And I realize love isn't about sex. It's about connection.”

“None of us can choose where we shall love...”

“There are so many men, all endlessly attempting to sweep me off my feet. And there is one of you, trying just the opposite. Making sure my feet are firm beneath me, lest I fall.”

“Whales feel cohesion, a sense of community, of loyalty. The distress call of a lone whale is enough to prompt its entire pod to rush to its side- a gesture that lands them nose to nose in the same ...”

“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.”