A lot of times I go back to record and to make a tour, but I'm very happy to do it, because it gives me an opportunity to dig and hear what's going on.

When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition.

I hope we left you with something to put under your pillows.

Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people.

Jazz is a beautiful word. I love it.

What I'm doing, I prefer to call that jazz, because it is a beautiful word - I love it.

Bebop is the music of the future (as soon as they learn how to play it).

In nuclear war, all men are cremated equal.

Jazz is an octopus. It will take whatever it can use and it will work with it.

If you can't play the Blues you might as well hang it up.

Music is a reservoir... of sounds.

Achievement is not important, attempt is...!

It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely to attain what we want.

Those who call themselves art photographers are pompous, arrogant egoists.

I don't think anybody could have predicted that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile.

If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.

I feel safe in saying this, and that is that Peter Weir is without a doubt one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. I'd open a door in a movie for him if he asked me to.

It is error to believe that Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true.

If you find something that you feel you belong to, become a groupie and a fan, and then a critic.

With a project like 'Teachers Lounge,' you're wearing a lot of hats, so it demands hard work and focus if you want to do it right.

The child and the poet know that Reality is what does not need to be realistic.