Not for me. If I want to tune everybody out, I just take off my glasses and enjoy the haze.

Our basic audience begins with creaking elderly types of twenty-three and above.

Sometimes I get the feeling that there are orgies going on all over new York City, and somebody says, `Let's call Desmond,' and somebody else says, 'Why bother? He's probably home reading the Encyclopedia Britannica.'

I discovered early in life that if you take gym first period, you can go into the wrestling room and sit in the corner and sleep.

I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to sound like a dry martini.

I'm glad [Ornette Coleman] is such an individualist. I like the firmness of thought and purpose that goes into what he's doing, even though I don't always like to listen to it. It's like living in a house where everything's painted red.

The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity.