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“I'm really, really dumb about describing wine, but I like wine that's full-bodied and dry.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 
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“Music needs the juxtaposition of opposites to achieve its drama, so harshness and dissonance are simply part of the material a musician can use to create a musical work. All one thing is a bore-all dissonance, or all fatuous consonance. George Winston and Guns and Roses are two sides of the same worthless coin in my esthetic world.”
Source : "Chuck Israels: Evans, Education And Philosophy". Interview with Sean Dietrich, www.allaboutjazz.com. May 27, 2010.
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“The task is not to overcome opponents in general but only those opponents against whom one has to summon all one's strength, one's skill and one's swordsmanship-in fact to master opponents who are one's equals.”
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“In solitude the mind gains strength, and learns to lean upon herself; in the world it seeks or accepts of a few treacherous supports--the feigned compassion of one, the flattery of a second, the civilities of a third, the friendship of a fourth--they all deceive, and bring the mind back to retirement, reflection, and books.”
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“People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart.”
Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Whether something 'has color' or not is as hard to define verbally as are such questions as, 'What is music?' or 'What is musical?”
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“Glory is a poison, good to be taken in small doses.”
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“There's no religious test under the constitution. That's what it says. Period.”
