Anything you are shows up in your music - jazz is whatever you are, playing yourself, being yourself, letting your thoughts come through.

One way and another I was having a ball - playing gigs, jamming and listening to fine musicians. Then came a crisis at home. My stepfather fell sick, and it meant I had to support the family.

I wonder what an agent would do if he had to travel with the band he's booking.

It's not what you play, it's how you play it.

Many people forget that Jazz, no matter what form it takes, must come from the heart as well as the mind.

If you work on your talent, the plans will fall in automatically.

I have been tied up with music for about as long as I can remember. By the time I was four I was picking out little tunes my mother played on the reed organ in the living-room.

Within a few hours I had them off, was about ready to play the shows. That night I opened, and during the week Harris was over to the house to talk my mother into letting me leave home.

In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Lucian's father had warned him to fear idle men. Without the pride gained from a good day's work, they were left to their vices and the doubts that crowded their head. Their hatred. Their envy.

It is the height of irony to prejudge someone of prejudice.

The only peace that can endure is a peace that can be defended.

Most budget airlines anywhere in the world are going to leave you dissatisfied after using them.

Beer, of course, is actually a depressant, but poor people will never stop hoping otherwise.

Take all the hype out of the exercise and think of it as brushing your teeth.

I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.

The more you have to do, the more you have only NOW to get it done. That's why busy people get the most done.

If you think you know it all, you are missing something.