For me at age 11, I had a pair of binoculars and looked up to the moon, and the moon wasn't just bigger, it was better. There were mountains and valleys and craters and shadows. And it came alive.
Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.
You gotta bear in mind, the youth - and this is just in Britain alone - have nowhere to go in the evenings. They've closed all the social centers. There's not even a patch of grass to kick a ball on.
I've always been fascinated with the juxtaposition of technology in music, not only in recording, but in the keyboard. It's amazing the way you can apply technology to an art form.
I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die.
Call me Richard. That’s my real name. Call me that.
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
You have perspective when little people come into your life. You take the best things you have and let them overshadow your disappointment.
Life's too short. You may be on this planet for 80 years at best or who knows, but you can't just pedal around and do the same thing forever.
George Carlin was great right up to the end of his life. But Richard Pryor was probably the best, most gifted stand-up comedian who will ever live.
At its best, entertainment is going to be a subjective thing that can't win for everyone, while at worst, a particular game just becomes a random symbol for petty tribal behavior.
Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.
About 1960, it became clear that it was best for me to bring the experimental part of my research program to a close - there was too much to do on the theoretical aspects - and I began the process of winding down the experiments.
When I wrote my cookbook, 'I Love Crab Cakes,' I asked some of my best chef buddies to contribute recipes.
It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought.
I think basically lables were more interested in a Richard Page record than a Mr. Mister record.
I don't know how the 'Richie' started. My name is Richard, and they called me Dick in the minor leagues.
Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight.
I call all chefs 'cooks.' They're all cooks. That's what we do, we cook. You're a chef when you're running a kitchen.
Albacore tuna has a mild flavor that's delicious served raw or seared briefly on the outside so that it's still rare on the inside.
I was driving around the country when I was 19 and happened to run out of cash in Seattle, so I settled here.
