"In rock & roll heaven, there ARE drum solos, but only the drummers can hear them."

“Love your country. Your country is the land where your parents sleep, where is spoken that language in which the chosen of your heart, blushing, whispered the first word of love; it is the home that God has given you that by striving to perfect yourselves therein you may prepare to ascend to him.”

Source : Giuseppe Mazzini (1850). “Royalty and Republicanism in Italy: Or, Notes and Documents Relating to the Lombard Insurrection, and to the Royal War of 1848”, p.118, London, C. Gilpin

“And guys, if you exploit a girl, it will come back to get you. That's called 'karma.'”

“There is more difference within the sexes than between them.”

Source : Mother and Son ch. 10 (1955)

“Winter's notion of poetry is tragedy. It knows nothing of comedy. Its laughter was frozen on its lips long ago.”

“In 1968 I ran into Steve Lacy on the street in Rome. I took out my pocket tape recorder and asked him to describe in fifteen seconds the difference between composition and improvisation. He answered: "In fifteen seconds the difference between composition and improvisation is that in composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in fifteen seconds, while in improvisation you have fifteen seconds." His answer lasted exactly fifteen seconds.”

“[Footnote:] Much still remains to be learned about his sex life because the Hummingbird is quicker than the eye.”

“I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.”

Source : The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 199.

“Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.”