Ossie Davis was a man with great integrity, great honor and someone who I feel has done us all a great service just by being on the Earth.
Curators are great, but they're inherently biased. Curators are always making an editorial decision. Those biases have really big implications.
It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
Leadership is happening, but it's not coming from the leaders of the old institutions. Everywhere you look, you see these extraordinary, sparkling new initiatives that are under way.
Tattooing is my social life, too, so most of my time is taken up with that. People like Henry Lewis, Mike Davis at Everlasting Tattoo.
I have closed that page of my life without rancor. I do not disown any of the work done.
I never say what I mean, but I always manage to say something similar.
Sometimes you get from the mouth of kids wonderful things.
Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities.
The most important thing to do is really listen.
The President would usually talk to me about matters relating to the immigration problem.
In Oakland, Al Davis was a genius. We had Ron Wolff there, too, and he was a genius. There was no room for me to be a genius.
The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.
Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.
Davis: Saddle up, ladies. We're sick of holding up your end.
Peter Llewelyn Davies: Stop lying to me. I'm sick of grown-ups lying to me!
Roland Turner: Folk singer with a cat. You queer?
Isaac Davis: They probably sit around on the floor with wine and cheese, and mispronounce allegorical and didacticism.
Isaac Davis: My ex-wife left me for another woman.
It was sad when Sid Vicious died... I was freaked out when Phil Lynott died from Thin Lizzy. I cried. It was too crazy.
I played baseball up until my freshman year of high school. That was my main sport. I played third base.
