I think that if you keep banging at the door all you need is a little foothold, a little tiny foothold, and then the rest will take care of itself.

That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.

When you're dealing with music without words, titles are more a means of identification than anything else. What's the point of getting lofty?

One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community.

Pop doesn't really look back. It can't. What makes pop work is simplicity.

You don't know what you like, you like what you know. In order to know what you like, you have to know everything.

What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America.

I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.

A lot of musicians have a tough time hearing what we're doing in a trio format.

So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians.

Coltrane came to New Orleans one day and he was talking about the jazz scene. And Coltrane mentions that the problem with jazz was that there were too few groups.

Prayerful life must be desire by every Christian.

When he opens his mouth to speak, I place a finger on his

Done so many evil things in the name of love, it's a crying shame. I never did see no fire that could put out a flame.

Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.

More important than learning how to recall things is finding ways to forget things that are cluttering the mind.

In other words we have marketed our way into this health crisis.

Jerry and I always felt that the character was enjoying himself. He was having fun: he wasn't taking himself seriously. It was always a lark for him, as you can see in my early drawings.

There is no city in the United States in which I can get a warmer welcome and fewer votes than Columbia, Ohio.

I think I'm being friendly with someone and I'll sit in their lap. They think I'm flirting with them.

Outstanding long-term results are produced primarily by avoiding dumb decisions, rather than by making brilliant ones.