The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.
I have learned that any fool can write a bad ad, but that it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.
Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe.
Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
T Bone is genius. The way they've recorded my voice and the instrumentation to these songs is really quite extraordinary.
What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?
Since when was genius found respectable?
Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.
The genius of America is that we are still a land of undiscovered shores, and we are at our best when we open our hearts and allow the night winds to bring renewed visions of great deeds.
I am the farthest thing from a computer genius.
I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.
If you hype something and it succeeds, you're a genius - it wasn't a hype. If you hype it and it fails, then it was just a hype.
Many now born, by the time they are voters will compose part of a nation with a genius nowhere equaled, and with a vast territory upon which those energies and that genius can operate.
Of all the projects I've worked on, I've never worked with another director like Billy Friedkin. I think he's a genius.