I wonder what an agent would do if he had to travel with the band he's booking.

One way and another I was having a ball - playing gigs, jamming and listening to fine musicians. Then came a crisis at home. My stepfather fell sick, and it meant I had to support the family.

It's not what you play, it's how you play it.

Anything you are shows up in your music - jazz is whatever you are, playing yourself, being yourself, letting your thoughts come through.

Many people forget that Jazz, no matter what form it takes, must come from the heart as well as the mind.

If you work on your talent, the plans will fall in automatically.

I have been tied up with music for about as long as I can remember. By the time I was four I was picking out little tunes my mother played on the reed organ in the living-room.

Within a few hours I had them off, was about ready to play the shows. That night I opened, and during the week Harris was over to the house to talk my mother into letting me leave home.

The life of man is so short that ordinary people simply cannot afford to be born

A man who can laugh at himself is truly blessed, for he will never lack for amusement.

Working is actually a pleasure. It's just very time-consuming. It's a way of life. I find that I can work when I travel and work when I run. There is nothing like, on a rainy day, to work.

I'm of the opinion that it's okay to be silent, to not speak if you don't have anything to say.

The thought of dancing scared me. A lot. Because I have absolutely no aptitude for it.

Distance is the Enemy of Awareness.

If you consider, for example, that democracy is much like a religion then 9/11 is akin to finding the body of God.

The end of a thing, is never the end, something is always being born like a year of a baby.

It is a whole lot easier to see our problems in others than it is to see them in ourselves.

Perhaps the spirit of the Everglades was most evident in the unseen, the hidden, the implied.