Stan Kenton

When you get to the top, don’t forget to send the elevator down for the next guy.

And you know, there’s less charm in life when you think about death–but it’s more peaceful.

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

There have been times when I’ve been around people I wouldn’t care to be around, and if I could get away I would. We have a word in Mississippi – we just don’t seem to set horses. In other words, this person is always saying something that gets your goat, y’understand? But when people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there I had nobody I disliked other than the people that’d mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.

An artist is always alone if he is an artist. What the artist needs is loneliness.

Whenever you get the idea that you are ‘fixed’ or that anything is ‘fixed’ for life, you’d better get ready for a sudden change.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

We ought to know more about the families who founded this nation, and how they lived. One way to do this is to reconstruct as nearly as possible the conditions under which they lived.

I believe that everything in life happens for a reason.

Do you realize if it weren’t for Edison we’d be watching TV by candlelight?

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.

Idleness is the reason for many of our troubles.

Happy New Year to all, including to my many enemies and those who have fought me and lost so badly they just don’t know what to do. Love!