"I have a healthy view of what one can do with art."

“I know how bad Albany is. I know it better than most. I understand why people are angry. I'm angry. The question is going to be, how do you change Albany, what is the plan for change, and then how do you actually get it done?”

“Most of us are unaware of our deep-seated faith in numbers.”

Source : Carl Eckart (1984). “Our Modern Idol, Mathematical Science”

“All of those guys who told me that I was too short and how complicated the game was, it is not that complicated. It is the same game I have always played.”

“Music really does just boil down to basically, essentially songwriting chords and melodies.”

Source : Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

“Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the other as by their own imagination. They are always wooing goddesses, and marrying mere mortals.”

“We never got anything out of the recordings. I'm still as broke as I was when I was with the Mothers.”

Source : Jimmy Carl Black Interview by Stephen Moore in Munich, Germany, www.stevemoorebooks.com. March 29, 2000.

“One night in Pittsburgh, thirty-thousand fans gave me a standing ovation when I caught a hot dog wrapper on the fly.”

“We are more likely to fail as craftsmen due to our inability to organize obsession than because of our lack of ability.”