What am I responsible for? Who am I responsible to? Everybody? How come when Archie Bunker nailed everybody, it was funny - but when I do it, it's not?
Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.
No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.
It is no use working with other architects. What can they do? Who does what?
They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
I'm so grateful for archives like Wayback Machine, who for 15 years have been creating snapshots of almost the entire web.
President Yeltsin's instincts were decent: he encouraged the marketplace, the press flourished, and everything started to open - even the KGB archives. Yeltsin reburied Nicholas II. Free from Soviet anti-semitism, he surrounded himself with Jewish capitalists and advisers who returned to public life for the first time since the 1920s.
One of my first festivals was Oxygen 2006. It had this amazing lineup with the Arctic Monkeys on their first or second album, the Strokes, Kings of Leon, the Magic Numbers and then the Who and James Brown. I waited in the pit for a good eight hours to see James Brown.
It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.
He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
To me, R&B means Aretha Franklin, who is otherworldly.
My mom actually had a band called Six Pack - even though there were seven of them - who went around Chicago performing popular songs. Her voice was like Gladys Knight mixed with Aretha Franklin.
Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally and who admired Mahalia Jackson and Aretha Franklin.
My years with Aretha Franklin have been very special, as were the years making records with Dionne Warwick. Other highlights include working with Janis Joplin, who was the first artist I ever signed, as well as Patti Smith and Alicia Keys.
My grandfather was a very mystical guy who travelled from Argentina to Chile, across the mountains with a donkey, carrying the Torah.
Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason.
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.
Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.
My father was an American who could cuss in Italian and make an aria out of it. It was wonderful to watch. But then again, he was a Gemini. I believe in that stuff.
