“It’s hard to get into Newsweek because, as more of our former intellectual magazines take on a pop focus, if there’s no buzz, there’s no interest.”

One of the things that I loved about listening to Miles Davis is that Miles always had an instinct for which musicians were great for what situations. He could always pick a band, and that was the thing that separated him from everybody else.

The biggest problem with American music right now, is that kids don’t listen. They come by it honestly, Americans don’t listen anyway.

What is jazz? It, It’s almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It’s a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America.

Never too old, never too bad, never too late, never too sick to start from scratch once again.

When people go to concerts, they say I’m going to see… not, I’m going to hear.

The fans and supporters are also part of the Olympic family.

If it’s not going to sound like Terrapin Station, what’s the point of playing Terrapin Station?

Coming up in the African-American culture, we were taught that we belonged to the universe and society was wrong in the way it dealt with us. We had to learn to express and affirm values not from the winning position.

The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.

So then it comes back to whether the suffering and cruelty is justified by its place in a tradition that has deep roots in the culture. At present, the view in Catalonia apparently is that it does not.

Except for talk radio, liberals pretty much control the culture.

Faith, culture, structure and guidance are good things.

So there is a long struggle between the Dar al-Islam and the Dar al-Harb, which in effect was Christendom. This was the perceived enemy. And this has inevitably colored the perception of everything else.

It is true that in this culture, they throw you out when you get older. I see it all the time, especially in my business. At my age, you’re playing somebody’s mother – and there aren’t even a lot of those roles!

New York is the culture capital of the world because people are running into each other on the street all the time. They are forced to engage in creativity and problem-solving.