Harmelody allows everybody to be an individual who does not have to imitate anybody else.

It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.

Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.

When I have them working together, it's like a beautiful kaleidoscope.

For me, being an innovator doesn't mean being more intelligent, more rich, it's not a word, it's an action.

The idea is more important than the style you're playing in.

You don't have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don't have anything to do with placement. Numbers only have something to do with repetition.

I don't try to please when I play. I try to cure.

Music has many uses and I think the most perfected use that music has is one of a healing quality.

Whatever you do, it's over when you do it - but first you have to do it.

We in the Western world suffer from too many categories and classes; we've forgotten that we all still have diapers on. We've separated music from life.

Love is difficult, because loving is not enough: We must, like God, ourselves be Love.

Human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself.

The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.

I used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books back. Nobody gave me direction or advice and I read much in the way that a boy might watch television.

Confidence is one of the sexiest things.

If I weren't doing what I'm doing now, the actress thing, the star business, if you want to call it that, whatever it is, I'd be in an asylum. I'm sure of it.

The excruciating moments of drama are when people are allowed to show or say what they feel.

Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.

I've always been a strong believer that you were born with the hair you've got, but have the ability to get the hair you want.

When I started out as Prime Minister I wanted to please all the people all the time. By the end I was wondering if I pleased any of the people any of the time.