The Duke: It's not that I'm not a jealous man. I just don't like other people touching my things.
Satine: [to Christian] On opening night I have to sleep with the Duke, and the jealousy will drive you mad.
Jonathan Mardukas: You don't look like an FBI agent to me. Jack Walsh: Well, you don't look like a duke to me.
Duke Forrest: [holds up a piece of toast dripping creamed chipped beef] You forgot your shingle, doctor.
Spearchucker: I want to make sure the oozing is checked before I close up. Duke Forrest: Damn perfectionist.
Little John: I am Sir Reginald, Duke of Chatne. And don't stick your tongue out at me, kid.
Hiss: What cheek! Creepy? Buster? Long one? Who does that dupey duke think he is?
Zelig's Wife: He married me up at the First Church of Harlem. He told me he was the brother of Duke Ellington.
The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.
It's a blast to watch. It's a lot more interesting live than it is on record. I mean, it really is a theatrical event. It's a sporting event! Cause you never know what's gonna happen.
I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't.
I mean, in the course of an evening, people will take a solo here and there, but generally it's all about the rhythm of that music. Dealing with the rhythm with everything. That's essentially at least my concept of what that group is.
I never do anything to strictly satisfy a fickle, ever-changing commercial world. I do the music I like to play. It's the only way I feel comfortable existing in the industry.
I'm moved by a lot of different kinds of music, whether it's pop music or R&B or straight-ahead jazz or free or opera or music from all parts of the world.
The main thing that those two albums have in common aside from my music, which of course, a sense of it, you can recognize, it is that the bass on Infinite Search was playing much, much less like a bass.
Everybody's not going to like jazz, let's just be honest about it. Everybody doesn't like everything. There's a disconnect in generations and some people just aren't going to feel that music.
Jazz is like a big secret club. The mainstream media doesn't pay any attention to it; it's, like, 1 percent of the music market - no one cares. Why? Because the majority of jazz is old.
I think people are just haters. When they see people doing well, some people, if there's something wrong, they'll pick at that.
Kauai is kind of my place where I go to get centered. It's always my place to come back and feel normal again.
We were from totally different social backgrounds. This is what is very hard for an American to understand, but we could have been five guys from Mars.
Close to the Edge, Red, One of a kind, Discipline, Earthworks, The Sound of Surprise, all seem to me to be albums that captured the essence of the intention.
