I tend to not want to put labels or categories on the music, only because people come with preconceived ideas about what they're going to hear, or won't come for this reason.
Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
Music is my only guide. I don't care if people pigeonhole me. Miles Davis is my hero. He covered Cindy Lauper and Michael Jackson, and he didn't give a hoot about what the purists said.
American sports are quite masculine. And football - although it's still played by men all over the world - football compared to American football is quite feminine in its artistry. And there's no padding. It's America's loss, though.
[a guest is calling his meditation guru] Party guest: Hey, Mr. Davis, I forgot my mantra.
Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for - sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive or quiet and calm.
I got to play in a crowd, play in Wimbledon finals, be the guy on a Davis Cup team for a while. Those are opportunities not a lot of people get.
Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books.
You have a chance to save lives! If you don't take it, you may regret it!
YAZIDIS AND CHRISTIANS WANT TO BE FREE OF NIGHT MIST AND BEHEADING DRIFT!
I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE... AND REMIND EVERYONE... OF THE RAPE OF THE YAZIDI WOMEN
I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE... AND TELL EVERYONE... THAT THIS IS HAPPENING... IN THE CENTURY TWENTY-ONE
I will follow anyone... and remind everyone... of the pain of the Yazidi women
I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE... AND DEMONSTRATE TO EVERYONE... THAT THEIR FEAR IS GENUINE
I will follow anyone... and remind everyone... that their fear is genuine.
UPON FACES ANGEL TEARS... YOUR VOICES IN OUR EARS
Each day is an opportunity to build the defenses of peace in the minds of people.
Peace is possible because it is today more than ever desperately necessary
I'm very much tied to the state of Israel, but I am against their policy of settlements in Palestine.
New York is really the place to be; to go to New York, you're going to the center of the world, the lion's den.
All these people who scream about Kashmir being an armed camp are in fact responsible for keeping it that way.
