I might have played a little bit more in Europe than I have in Japan.

Because the stuff that they feed kids now, they'll have a bunch of idiots in the next millennium as far as art and culture is concerned.

The Japanese actually approach the music on a high level. It's always been on a high level.

You know the drum was the first instrument besides the human voice.

If I couldn't do it, then I'd be defeated. I've got the tools to do it. I never did question my tools.

If somebody would come and they're not playing music, they would encounter certain people on another level.

Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz isn't.

The French - they like jazz, theyve been on jazz a long time.

Theres so much beautiful music in the world, and the kids are getting robbed.

It's something that - jazz is one of the few things that you can go and listen to, I don't care where you're from, what you are, what background you come from - there's something there for you.

I enjoy seeing young people being interested in what they can do.

A primary requirement in every enterprise in habit-formation is self-confidence.

No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.

Just because I don't deserve her doesn't mean I won't fight to keep her.

It's funny, he said, have you ever thought that a girl's clothes cost more than the girl inside them?

It is not the individual's right to buy that is being protected. Rather, it is the seller's right to manage the individual.

Where consciousness is concerned, the appearance is the reality.

I really like to talk about my work in a way that is complicated.

I suppose it’s true that most great television, literature, and other forms of high art (and basic cable) benefit from a little hindsight. “M.A.S.H.” comes to mind. So does The Iliad.

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Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.