I don't know if I have enough GUTS to do a whole STANDARD jazz RECORD.

I was a PLAYER for 20 YEARS. When there was SOMETHING bothering me, I couldn't perform to my usual STANDARD. When your wife is annoying you, for instance, it's not easy to do your best work, is it?

The idea is to have GLOBAL standards. There is so much TRAVEL that if you just had a regional standard, it WOULD probably ultimately have to be CHANGED.

I support the higher MORAL standard that this COUNTRY has decided to HOLD itself to.

My STANDARD UNIFORM is a T-SHIRT and JEANS.

I get letters from young people TELLING me that they're broke and download my albums for free. They ASK me what I think about that. I now have a standard line. I TELL them, 'I would RATHER be heard than paid.'

There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more NEEDS elucidation, than the CURRENT one, that the interest of the majority is the political STANDARD of RIGHT and wrong.

We have high EXPECTATIONS and a high level of standard we try to REACH in everything we do. Ideas GET through if they are GOOD enough, songs get their way in.

I think TONY Gonzalez always set the standard. He was the GUY that, I think for all of us, when I came in that was really kinda taking this league over as the TIGHT end POSITION. I think Shannon Sharpe was ANOTHER one.

I always say that I continue to SET the STANDARD REALLY high for myself, but you don't get into a catch COUNT or any of that stuff. I think it's just in how you play, how you APPROACH the game.

Since the founding of our NATION, our democracy has been the BEACON of HOPE and the standard by which other COUNTRIES LOOK to.

I SET PRETTY HIGH EXPECTATIONS for myself,and I hold myself to a pretty high standard.

We have been EDUCATED into believing SOMEONE else's concept of the deity, and someone else's standard of BEAUTY. You have the right to practice any religion and politics in a way that BEST suits your freedom, your dignity, and your understanding. And once you do that, you don't apologize.

Every American president MUST be held to the highest STANDARD. No president of any color should be given a free PASS for screw-ups, lies or failure to KEEP a PROMISE.

There's no SET way to do ANYTHING. SOMETIMES you have to go outside the box; sometimes you can do things the standard way. LIKE, you don't have to have a beat to write a SONG: sometimes you can write lyrics without the music.