I should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable.

This is music I've known since I first started to play the guitar. Ray's music was one of my inspirations: He was a super soul-music man, but he was also a jazz musician, too. I see him as the height of honest expression.

A painting means as much to you as a string of pearls to an ape.

Cheating on a quiz show? That's sort of like plagiarizing a comic strip.

Sixty-four thousand dollars for a question, I hope they are asking you the meaning of life.

Producers have realized that public taste in music has risen, and we are now conducting a test which will eventually lead to the writing of entire modern operas for the screen. When that day comes, composers will accept the motion picture as a musical form equal to the opera or the symphony.