Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon and we have a lot of scenario writers here. No one ever wrote a scenario for commercial airliners crashing into the World Trade Center.

I write from my imagination not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.

The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists but belongs in varying degrees to all men.

It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination so that we can understand the sufferings of others.

Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination if the United States is one of the most venal nations on Earth it is also one of the most earnestly idealistic.

Imagination is the air of mind.

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying 'Just watch!'

I've been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years and the possibilities are astounding. It's up to you the only limit is the imagination.