Michel Petrucciani

My philosophy is to have a really good time and never to let anything stop me from doing what I want to do.

I don’t believe in geniuses, I believe in hard work.

I have 100 percent Bronx pride like it’s a country like I AM the Bronx.

Many people are busy trying to find better ways of doing things that should not have to be done at all. There is no progress in merely finding a better way to do a useless thing.

If you foul up, tell the President and correct it fast. Delay only compounds mistakes.

It doesn’t matter how slow you go as long as you don’t stop.

The gifted man bears his gifts into the world, not for his own benefit, but for the people among whom he is placed; for the gifts are not his, he himself is a gift to the community.

The menu is not the meal.

There are no limitations to any of our dreams.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

We lift ourselves by our thoughts. We climb upon our vision of ourselves.

Faith, n.: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

I drank to drown my pain, but the damned pain learned how to swim…

It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months.

Very jaded and tired and depressed and cross…Must fill my mind with air and light, and walk and blanket it in fog.