I was very thrilled to witness the workby my ol' buddy Jim Widner whose expertise in the field of jazz education proved invaluable in putting this masterful CD (Yesterdays & Today) together.

Well, I'm too old to pimp, and too young to die, so I'm just gonna keep playin'

Imitate, assimilate, and innovate.

I believe that regardless of how many people you've listened to or emulated over the years, your sound is you and what you really feel inside.

Your sound is you & what you really feel inside.

Imitate, assimilate & innovate.

Your mind is a positive asset. Use it for positive thoughts.

Count Basie was college, but Duke Ellington was graduate school.

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others they will live for you.

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

Sometimes a little near death experience helps them put things into perspective.

Brian Eno developed systems to keep himself on edge and to keep himself in a position where he's generating ideas.

It means to educate myself incessantly about the world around me.

In this dark world where he now dwelt, ugly things and surprising things and once in a long while a tiny wondrous thing spilled out at him constantly; he could count on nothing.

I am happy making the films I make and I would like the West to be impressed with what we do from India.

What succeeds we keep, and it becomes the habit of mankind.

Love is just a piece of time in the world in the world And I couldn't help but fall in love again