There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.
I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.
It might be a shock to see me, but that's no reason for people to act crazy, and it doesn't give them license to chase me down the street.
Every year, they ask me to play the Grammys.
I record all the time.
I'm thankful enough or blessed enough to be able to say that Miles Davis was a friend when he was alive, and he was a wonderful mentor and really, really funny, you know.
A strong spirit transcends rules.
Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.
Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.
Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
Never was anything great achieved without danger.
It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.
No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
Defense is superior to opulence.
I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.
I always think if you are asking somebody for something it is a good idea to give them something first.
As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.
To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.