I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn.

Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.

The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.

Don't be afraid to expand yourself, to step out of your comfort zone. That's where the joy and the adventure lie.

You would not exist if you did not have something to bring to the table of life.

Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference.

Forget about trying to compete with someone else. Create your own pathway. Create your own new vision.

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

The most valuable things in life are priceless. They are courage, compassion, wisdom, respect for ourselves and others, and a host of characteristics that we call the beauty of the human spirit.

Jazz is about being in the moment.

A future as lonely as the surface of the moon and still just the sight of him feels like a homecoming, like a song I used to know but forgot.

[God] says to pray for our enemies. How many of us have ever spent time praying for our enemies?

Paradise is at your own center; unless you find it there, there is no way to enter.

Style is luxury, and luxury is simply what makes you happy.

If America could get along with Russia - and by the way, China and Japan and everyone. If we could get along, it would be a positive thing, not a negative thing.

There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.

Beyond any technique, relationships are what heal.

Is that the truth, Jimmy?" I ask without looking at him. "It's the truth and it come to ya!" I smile.

As you get older, you sometimes feel that it's harder and harder to get something new and wonderful to come into your life.

Susan Bordo’s Unbearable Weight is a masterpiece of complex an nuanced thinking not only about a significant problem that faces women but about our culture. A very valuable book.