A frisky spirit makes my trombone sing.

Here in England we live at a slower pace, have more time to enjoy things - like good jazz.

In America, life is introverted, self-absorbed - and so is their music.

We play happy music and we make people happy, that's why they like us

Jazz of the sort we play is a happy, extroverted music. You don't have to think about it too much.

I have only been working in the office for a few months, but I already have a development plan and had the opportunity to job shadow someone in a role that is of interest to me.

Keep a big glass of cool water close while reading this one. —Margaret Smith

The most wonderful time to be in the art world was in the sixties, because it wasn't a business - there was no business of doing art.

Most "original" ideas aren't completely original, but instead are the result of two basic methods for generating ideas: problems in search of solutions and solutions in search of problems.

I pretend to understand because I don't want anybody to be hurt

You can only depend on yourself. The cavalry aint coming.

Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.

This voting thing is actually beautiful. Not just necessary - it's a wonderful thing and it makes you powerful. And we've forgotten that in the most negative [president's] campaign in history.

Any performer is one person privately and then he's another person when he steps on the stage.

We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it.

You're dressed for dancing," she said in her throaty stage voice. "Being undressed for dancing occured to me, but I didn't think Merris would like it.