George Gershwin

True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time.

Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise.

All these tales of people sitting down and composing symphonies just as though they were writing a letter are very much exaggerated; at least, it isn't that way in my work.

In big science, the role of the individual scientist must be carefully preserved. So is the one of original ideas and of contributions.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'