Quotes About Responsibility

There are a lot of things that are part of the music business that I'm very bad at. Organization, being on time - the stuff you need in order to function in the regular world.

I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs.

I'm careful what I put out there into the universe, musically. I don't take it lightly.

Darling, when you're as old as I am, you cherish the very few musicals that have come your way that you know are great classics. You become their guardian.

As a jazz musician, you have individual power to create the sound. You also have a responsibility to function in the context of other people who have that power also.

And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs.

With cab drivers, I always say I'm from Brazil. I don't say I'm from Israel. It's happened more than once that someone is blaming me for the government's policy. And I say, 'Listen, I live here. I'm a musician. I don't call the shots.'

Fatherhood changed me as a musician.

Not to flatter myself, but I know that you can influence people's opinion as a musician, and I don't want to.

I still want to make Kyra proud of the person I am - father, husband, actor, musician.

In my eyes, I think it's important that if you're doing something you're proud of and that is genuine and authentic, you have a responsibility to bring that to as many people as possible, just for the sheer reason that there are musicians out there who are manufacturing emotions that aren't genuine.

Kids need role models, whether it's baseball players, actors or musicians: people to bring a little positive light into their hearts and minds. We need to be a little kinder to those people because it's not easy being that role model, looked upon as something we are all incapable of being - too perfect.

It's my fault in many cases because I don't initiate the contact to talk with a lot of other musicians.

And it's a lot harder to hide with four musicians than it is with eight.

For a journalist who covers the Muslim world, we have responsibilities to be familiar with that culture and to know how to respond to that.

If Muslims curse the Christians, then the Christians will curse the Muslims. And people will curse Allah, and Allah will hold us responsible for that.

Jihad is obligatory for the Muslims.

Muslims must speak out and explain who they are, what they believe in, what they stand for, what is the meaning of their life. They must have the courage to denounce what is said and done by certain Muslims in the name of their religion.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

Democracy demands trust. It demands that sense of mutual understanding. And - it's a two way street. You've got to give - as much as you take.

Having a kid is hard to explain, but when you talk to another parent, you have mutual understanding of what that does to you as a person.

My friend Jerry Falwell was the one who said it, and he was a guest on my show, and it's hard to take the blame for everybody who shows up on your show.

My friend said to me, 'You don't look good,' - because all the time I have to think about law and justice and courts.

I'm real careful doing public appearances because look at what happened to my friend Chris Kyle.