And there are a lot of people interested in creative music, there are more and more and more.

Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life.

The way we look at it, everything is a sound.

Play as well as you can all the time, and if you're truthful to your thing, you'll succeed.

We're just beginning to learn the importance of music in our society.

Many times you never know what's going to happen. You'll play songs that you never thought you were going to play.

I always tell my students when you're going to be a jazz musician the first thing you've got to do is be a professional musician, and that means you have to feed yourself with the instrument.

A chord is just the name of a sound.

We just can't go and try to turn the clock back, that's not happening anymore. You've got to figure something else out.

The music we play is kind of hard to explain. It's music that we really feel.

It's just about really being sensitive, and trying to play a music that is about music.

You can have all your heart's desires.

Declaring our intentions for a safer and kinder world is the obvious first step toward attaining those goals.

I wanted you see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

Pope actually said that maybe I'm not a good Christian or something. It's unbelievable. Which is really not a nice thing to say.

He missed her like crazycakes.

I don't really enjoy cardio, but I find activities like cranking up the music and dancing around my house keep me energized and feeling good.

Parents have no right to impose their religion on their children... A Fundamentalist Protestant parent has no right to expect the state to support his own narrow conception of education.

Be very cautious about your object of love because that is going to decide your destiny

I think my way of being "funny" is just saying things that people think but have learned not to say, whereas, I haven't learned not to say them.