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 . . .

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!

Keep on listening & tapping your feet.

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

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.

Dreams are blueprints and what good are blueprints until a carpenter goes to work? Dream big, and bold and brazen, but then get off your butt and do the work to realize your own dreams.

God is very great.God is splendour.God is majestic.

If i believe my truth is true and you believe your truth is true, what if my truth says yours is a lie.is it still true?

Movies with interfering in-laws and kids are often presented as comic, the ridicule bringing welcome relief to beleaguered married folks suffering offscreen at the hands of relatives.

I stopped dating for six months a year ago. Dating requires a lot of energy and focus.

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce.

I love scary movies. I like American Horror Story. That is more of a series, but it is really good.

Then at one point I did not need to translate the notes; they went directly to my hands

Respect all fear none my pride is everything

I'm truly an outsider in the poetry world. When I started writing, I was trying to move my poems away from modernist lines.