John McLaughlin

Power as an experience is as intense as sex. Power is more pervasive and unremitting. Sex has periods of remission.

Somebody should tell the president of Mexico that when he appears on American television, he should speak English.

I don't miss being a priest. The fulfillment factor in matrimony is far greater.

I don't like to get in front of people.

The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point.

Don't listen to anybody. Nobody knows the magic bullet. If they did, they'd sell it and make a fortune. Follow your gut. Follow your instincts. Every once in a while, take a chance.