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

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.

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.

To have a little recognition, that is very nice, you dig. It is good for the ego, for the psyche.

Unfortunately...I missed out on the California Gold Rush a century before...I'll be dammed if I miss out on this one.

I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

Labor, you know, is prayer.

Love is worthless unless it acts out, unless it's expressed in deed and behavior.

Happiness consists not of having, but of being. It is a warm glow of the heart at peace with itself.

Every dogma has its day, but ideals are eternal.

There's not just one trans story. There's not just one trans experience.

It does not matter whether the worker wants responsibility or not, ...The enterprise must demand it of him.

I think Facebook's biggest problem is the glut of information that Facebook's power users are overwhelmed with.

I detest acting because it is sheer drudgery.