All you have to do is be able to feel.

Jazz washes away the dust of every day life.

A name doesn't make the music. It's just called that to differentiate it from other types of music.

Music is supposed to wash away the dust of everyday life

So go on and play, and if you make a mistake, make it loud so you won't make it next time.

Jazz, I mean, music will always move, because it can't become stagnant. Because if it becomes stagnant, it's like a river, it'll kill us all. It has to keep moving, music will always flow.

It takes an intelligent ear to listen to Jazz.

If you feel like tapping your feet, tap your feet.

That.s what Jazz music is all about.We started the Messengers because somebody had to mind the store for jazz.No America--no Jazz. It is the only culture that America has brought forth.

They say that Jazz is back, and I don't think it's gone anywhere. But they say it's back.

What ever truth drops on it eventually grinds to a powder.

Sometimes, you need to downgrade your dreams to upgrade your reality.

Be calm. God awaits you at the door.

Mom could make small things seem miraculous. That was her talent.

We didn't believe in fate, but we believed in serendipity. We felt very lucky.

Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.

When Republicans used reconciliation in 2001 for the Bush tax cuts, they used it to increase the deficit. The whole purpose of reconciliation is for deficit reduction!

Empathy lies in our ability to be present without opinion.

The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of the whole technology of the times.

I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.

But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.