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Loudspeakers should be made to be destroyed and... disposable.
Nakedness makes us democratic, adornment makes us individuals.
I've done my bit for motion pictures-I've stopped making them.
'Uptown Funk' has all the ingredients of the funk that I love.
An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall.
Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.
Talent's like a baby. Wrap it up in wool and it goes to sleep.
I believe we're responsible for everything that happens to us.
Truth is the number one element in whatever you do with music.
We might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one
Following a code of silence, you're never gonna lose the anger.
I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.
I am consciously trying not to make it sound Celtic or African.
Then I went to radio with Sinatra and I watched that disappear.
You've given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.
You've got yoga, I've got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
Your mother told you all that I could give you was a reputation.
We deserve to know light. And grow evermore lighter and lighter.
I like to keep changing because discovery is always interesting.
Bud Powell's probably the biggest influence on my piano playing.
Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.
I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.
I listen to everything, I listen to all artists that come along.
I don't know what other people are doing - I just know about me.
Imitation is a caricature. Any imitation. Find out for yourself.
I loved singing. But can you imagine my voice in an opera house?
No matter what happens in life, never lose sight of who you are.
The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent.'
It depends on me whether life is good or not. Not on life, on me.
You cannot play the piano well unless you are singing within you.
Don't wait for answers, just take your chances. Don't ask me why.
Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
I don't believe that the entire world is constantly anti-Semitic.
I don't much care for the sunlight or bright colours of any kind.
I treat recorded tapes the way a film director treats his rushes.
I've always loved radio. Television scares me, because I'm older.
What you said hurt me very much. I cried all the way to the bank.
The creative process of composing music has always fascinated me.
My psychiatrist once said to me, 'Maybe life isn't for everyone'.
Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
Sometimes it's to your advantage for people to think you're crazy
I really and truly believe that music represents humanity’s soul.
I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.
If you tell kids they can't have something, that's what they want.
Rock and roll just used to be for kicks, now a days it's politics.
Even Stravinsky does not evoke the same public affection as Verdi.
I can change a No. 1 diaper in 30 seconds and a No. 2 in a minute.
There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.