I'm a very, very stubborn man.

Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.

Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time.

If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world.

My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

I think I have more in common with a carpenter than you might think. We're putting things together.

God has a way of telling you when to change your strings.

You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work.

When you're working in front of an audience, you have incentive to excel.

I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.

There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians.

holding the eveningtremblingly close to mei weepinto the sun lettingthe burdenof hopelift off my chesti realizethis is what it meansto be free.

Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end.

Compassion is a reflection of our connectedness. YOUR devotion to helping others is an expression of YOUR greatness.

Gary Allan has long been one of country's most reliably velvet-voiced beautiful losers.

The international order established at the end of World War II could certainly have been worse. However, this order did contain certain factors which bore within them the seeds of instability.

Woe to him inside a non-conformist clique who does not conform to non-conformity.

Arsenal means every thing to me. I've been here since I was nine and I love the Club.

I'd rather have a search engine or a compiler on a deserted island than a game.

If one knows only what one is told, one does not know enough to be able to arrive at a well-balanced decision.

What's done is done. The joy is in the doing.