I hope we left you with something to put under your pillows.

When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition.

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.

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

Hope is a beautiful and magical thing. Grasp it tight, monsieur, and never let go.

Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.

Sometimes the best songs almost write themselves

Identity is something that you are constantly earning.

That's what's wrong with the people in this world; they believe they can do well by just getting by when they need to aim for the highest.

I like doing movies that have good messages and have good moral backgrounds to them and things like that - and send out positive messages.

YouTube has proven it can flourish in a model where there is more autonomy, and in that way I think it is an example and a potential model for other areas of the business.

But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots.

Why is it that the right people never wind up together? Why are people so afraid to leave a relationship, even if they know it's a bad one?

The world is not interested in the storms you encountered, but did you bring in the ship?