For at the end of the day, prosperity goes beyond material pleasures.

The history of jazz for the last 45 years has come through the Monterey Jazz Festival stages. I think there's developed a legacy and an aura around the festival.

For at the end of the day, prosperity goes beyond material pleasures.

Questioning growth is deemed to be the act of lunatics, idealists and revolutionaries. But question it we must.

Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth...

Productivity-the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy-is often viewed as the engine of progress in modern capitalist economies. Output is everything. Time is money. The quest for increased productivity occupies reams of academic literature and haunts the waking hours of C.E.O.s and finance ministers.

[We are] persuaded to spend money we don't have on things we don't need to create impressions that won't last on people we don't care about.