I personally do not believe in politics, hatred, or anger in my musical composition.

Jazz is not background music. You must concentrate in order to get the most out of it. You must absorb it.

I will search for hidden talents that I didn't know I had and do my best to cultivate them. I am grateful for each day, and I will try to use each day as a stepping stone to greater achievements.

Musical composition should bring happiness and joy to people and make them forget their troubles.

We all have to open our minds, stretch forth, take chances and venture out musically to try and arrive at something new and different.

Jazz is not background music.

Basically my influences have been American influences. It's been blues, gospel, swing era music, bebop music, Broadway show music, classical music.

The ensemble playing is as clean as a whistle. The band plays in tune and with dynamics. Also, there is some fine arranging and orchestrating going on here, and the soloists perform at top level.

You are likely to lose the heat of your passion irrespective of how hot it was when you surrender yourself to a leader with lukewarm attitude.

I'm not proud of it, but I'm a great liar when I travel. I smile and lie, and things are smooth.

The armament of the government is legal armament. Any other armament is not legal.

To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise.

Just as God gave Moses exactly what he needed to accomplish great things, he will equip us in the same way. If he calls us to slay giants, he will make us into giant slayers.

I get nervous before I conduct a concert, but then you just go out there and do it.

We live in an age where people are kind of a bit obsessed with celebrity and stuff. You can't help but be curious about it.

When another is asked a question, take special care not to interrupt to answer it yourself.

Money is the currency of life because it is the external measurement system that all of us have as to how we judge where we are in our own lives.

Christ is with us until the world's end. Let his little flock be bold therefore.