"Excuses are like rear ends. Everybody has one and they stink."

“Whenever I explore the land of Yin, I always take one on the chin.”

“When the Grateful Dead needed a quality sound system to deliver our sonic payload, I learned electronics and speaker design.”

Source : "There’s a Fire on the Mountain" by Mickey Hart, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2011.

“I was playing in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra as principal horn. I was there for some 15 years - one of the most exciting and great musical periods in my life.”

Source : "Listen Back To A 1988 Conversation With Composer Gunther Schuller". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. June 22, 2015.

“We're all born with infinite potential and creativity. We all have it in us. Each and every one of us. That's the only truth”

“There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph, or a painting.”

“Two percent of the people think; three percent think they think, and 95 percent would rather die than think.”

“I've met enough KGB colonels in my life.”

“The realities of the modern global economy require government to play a substantial role in ensuring the national and economic security of the people.”