"The making of music is profoundly affected by the market."

"So there's no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn't necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn't necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame."

"With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why."

"There's something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There's something that invites all this obsessive behavior."

"My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived."

"Starting a new retirement plan for those below a certain age is something tens of millions of Americans have already been through at work."

"The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense."

"The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism it's egotism."