I'm only involved really right now with the Art Ensemble of Chicago and the Brass Fantasy.

Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life.

The way we look at it, everything is a sound.

Play as well as you can all the time, and if you're truthful to your thing, you'll succeed.

We're just beginning to learn the importance of music in our society.

Many times you never know what's going to happen. You'll play songs that you never thought you were going to play.

I always tell my students when you're going to be a jazz musician the first thing you've got to do is be a professional musician, and that means you have to feed yourself with the instrument.

A chord is just the name of a sound.

We just can't go and try to turn the clock back, that's not happening anymore. You've got to figure something else out.

The music we play is kind of hard to explain. It's music that we really feel.

It's just about really being sensitive, and trying to play a music that is about music.

In a society that worships love, freedom and beauty, dance is sacred, It is a paryer for the future, a remembrance of the past and a joyful exclamation of thanks for the present.

I realized that that was how heartbreak occurred. Your heart wants something, but reality resists it. Death is inert and heavy, and it has no relation to your heart's desires.

Unusual doors often take you to the unusual worlds!

In uniform patriotism can salute one flag only, embrace but the first circle of life - one's own land and tribe. In war that is necessary, in peace it is not enough.

I want to save lives, including my own, but Cambodians believe we just rent this body. It is just a house for the spirit, and if the house is full of termites, it is time to leave.

We deserve elections we can trust.

And when all is said and done, there is no greater success in the world than just being happy.

I'm determined to be a diva.

Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side

I have sacrificed everything in my life that I consider precious to advance the political career of my husband.