I didn't want to get that ring around my lips from practicing the trumpet, because I thought the girls wouldn't like me. So I never practiced.
Through improvisation, jazz teaches you about yourself. And through swing, it teaches you that other people are individuals too. It teaches you how to coordinate with them.
It's important to address young people in the reopening of New Orleans. In rebuilding, let's revisit the potential of American democracy and American glory.
There really have only ever been a few people in each generation who step out, are willing to put themselves on the line, and risk everything for their beliefs.
If you are serious about American culture and you are serious about Afro-American culture, you are in a lot of pain. You are not - you are not smiling about it.
A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.
The individual organs follow the same pattern as the whole organism, i.e. they have their period of growth, of stationary, maximum activity and then of aging decline.
'Ouch' is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word.
I was told I would become nothing. Now I am showing people how big nothing is.
Basically, my idea and explorations on fashion have not changed; however, I believe I'm going state-of-the-art on fashion.
When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.
Georgia O'Keeffe proposed that I live with her. She was in New Mexico then, and I wanted to be in New York.
My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
Many of the Central Asians know Russian, and Ted Levin speaks it fluently. I speak Chinese, but Mongolian is completely different, so we had to have translators.
Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts.
I think that's one of the most unique and potentially powerful things about reddit - people come for the news, and stay for the community.
The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is heresy. (“Tomorrow”)
I can't focus when there's too many things around. Whenever I used to go to the office, I used to always say, 'Tidy up.'
When I first came to Guangzhou in 1981, it seemed such a hard and dour place with everyone in Chairman Mao uniforms.
My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.
I started performing opera when I was 10 years old. I didn't perform as Zola Jesus until I was probably 18.
