I don't think radio is selling records like they used to. They'd hawk the song and hawk the artist and you'd get so excited, you'd stop your car and go into the nearest record store.

Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived.

We always felt that if you do something with quality and integrity, then it's going to come back to you.

Instrumental music can spread the international language.

I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico... not so much the music, but the spirit.

I like to listed to the adventurous guys - the Coltranes, Miles Davis, the guys who just let it loose.

I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.

I think we as human beings need to be able to appreciate each other's differences and I think jazz really takes us in that direction.

I'm seduced by the arts in general. Arts is like the power of now.

There's something interesting about playing live; you're in the moment, and I think it would be beneficial.

I play every day. It's like a habit for me now. I just, if I don't play, I kind of miss - something's off.

The hard part wasn’t breaking up. The hard part is forcing myself to fall out of love with you.

More grievous than tears is the sight of them.

I know it's the gentlemanly thing to let the wife file. But, then, everybody knows I'm no gentleman.

To think the universe is only composed of the physical universe is to be rather shortsighted.

When you kill a little time, you may be murdering opportunity.

I cannot, whilst President of the United States, descend to enter into a newspaper controversy.

I've been very fortunate to go from interesting chapter to interesting chapter.

[When asked how many husbands she had had:] My own, or other people's?

You realize who you're in love with is fading fast. You don't know what to do, but in that period time moves so slowly.

It's the first time it's happened to me and maybe the last. It's a strange sensation, not normal for me. I can't remember scoring three goals, even when I was a kid.