Brubeck, for instance, is not careless. He's a studied guy. And even if his picture ends up on the back cover of Life, he's still a studious guy.

They flat their fifths, we drink ours.

As it enters the ear, does it come in like broken glass, or does it come in like honey?

Ted Lewis could make the clarinet talk. What it said was put me back in the case!

[Louis Armstrong] could play a trumpet like nobody else, then put it down and sing a song like no one else could.

Paul Desmond sounds like a female alcoholic.

For a bad hangover take the juice of two quarts of whisky.

Krupa's drums went through us like a triple bourbon.

Finally Beiderbecke came out with a silver cornet. He put it to his lips and blew a phrase. The sound came out like a girl saying 'yes'.

If we who have the Holy Spirit living and working within us falter and fail, what hope is there for the rest of the world?

I love all life as my own. Therefore, I say, you're my very own. But am I, an infidel who does not believe in your ism, also your own?

If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.

I come from a place where everything about me, even my body language, is saying: I mean you no harm. I smile, I laugh. Basic stuff for most people.

Money isn't everything, but lack of money isn't anything.

I just spent my whole life training and focused on one thing, I really don't even think about after the fact! It's like, oh yeah, I have to do something after!

Success is the inner satisfaction and peace of mind that come from knowing I did the best I was capable of doing for the group.

History is but a confused heap of facts.

Sooner or later, the market will do what it has to do to prove the majority wrong.

My definition of poetry (if I were forced to give one) would be this: words that have become deeds.