Politics is the art of the next best.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough.
Wherever art appears, life disappears.
It is difficult to make political art work.
Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.
Language is a social art.
My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan.
The best substitute for experience is being sixteen.
did not discover bromine, rather bromine discovered . { .}
You don't have to live the blues to play the blues.
Right now I'm single. Single, and loving it.
If something is worth doing, it's worth overdoing.
I always begin to compose the melody first.
I am the worlds laziest writer.
When you have girl children they torture you!
I have to choose songs that represent my personality.
It is still color, it is not yet light.
I've become a captive of my own ambitions.
I played with Arthur Godfrey for about a year and a half.
