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“His parting shot to me had been, "I don't want to love someone who is more at home with the monsters than I am." What do you say to that? What can you say? Damned if I know. They say love conquers everything. They lie.”
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“I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's not about marketing.”
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“Riches should come as the reward for hard work, preferably by one's forebears”
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“Then down came the lid--the day was lost, for art, at Sarajevo. World-politics stepped in, and a war was started which has not ended yet: a "war to end war." But it merely ended art. It did not end war.”
Source : 1937 Blasting and Bombardiering, pt.5,'Toward an Art-Less Society'.
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“A child cannot be free if his/her mother is not free. A husband cannot be free if his wife is not free. The society is nothing if women are nothing.”
Source : "Women and the Reality of the Arab Spring: Writing New Constitutions, Leaving Out Women’s Rights" by Vivian Norris, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 18, 2012.
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“When you’re young, whatever you do that makes you stand out is a frightening thing. You learn later that that’s what you want to do, stand out.”
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“I like musicians who look at the public. You have to bring the music to the largest number. Otherwise, we'll [the Jazz players] stay in the clubs. Jazz must be accessible to everyone.”