I think the band can really swing when it swings easy, when it can just play along like you are cutting butter.

Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues.

Learn to deal with the valleys and the hills will take care of themselves.

It's the way you play that makes it . . . Play like you play. Play like you think, and then you got it, if you're going to get it. And whatever you get, that's you, so that's your story.

If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune.

The real innovators did their innovating by just being themselves.

If you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!

I was always willing to say, "Let's see what happens," when something came up that looked like it might help me get a little closer to where I wanted to be . . .

Keep on listening & tapping your feet.

All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel ... and that's what I've been doing all my life.

If a guy is gonna to play good bop, he has to have a sort of a bop soul.

Can any one deny that the old Israelites conceived Jahveh not only in the image of a man, but in that of a changeable, irritable, and, occasionally, violent man?

I will always be confident in the direction of my dreams because that's the life I wish to live.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

Both of my parents were born into poor families on the island of Cuba. They came to America because it was the only place where people like them could have a chance.

The great thing about having a bunch of kids is that they just remind you that you're the person who takes them to go poop. That's who you are!

This is an important part of the Internet Dynamic - providing opportunity and not guarantees.

As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.

When I look in the mirror, I see about a thousand different Jadas.

The first setting in which faith enlightens the human city is the family.

Hey, single malt scotch, youre thirty years old. When are you going to settle down and get married to my stomach?