Jazz tickles your muscles, symphonies stretch your soul.
Color is only beautiful when it means something.
The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.
You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas.
This world is very dark, but in Heaven there is no darkness.
James Brown is the reason I play guitar.
I was different from most young conductors today.
I didn't start to be an artist myself until I was 24.
As I say, I as an abstract artist was active politically.
In the late 30s the name Pollock was totally unknown and unheard of.
A room is not a room without natural light.
But 'Playboy' was liberating. I was drawn to it and went for it full throttle.
You can't take yourself too seriously.
Man shall find his anchorage in self-recognition.
The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.
All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.
So I'm in my 51st year of playin' mostly nightclubs. I do some concerts.
All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.
In the arts, as in life, everything is possible provided it is based on love.
Love and fantasy, go hand in hand.
Collage is the twentieth century's greatest innovation
