I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I am always seeking.

Many fail to realize this great recording industry was built by so-called jazz artists. And at the other end of the spectrum, a base in European classical music as well.

The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people are gonna say about your life and your work.

Jazz Improvisation means that practice is not as straightforward as it would be when you simply have a score to play.

You've got a big, big problem if you get caught up in what people say. If you're gonna live for what people say, you might as well lay down and forget it. Because it doesn't work that way.

I have looked to the Steinway piano since I was three, not only as my ideal choice of an instrument. But, as a responsive and ever reliable friend.

Mr. McVicker instilled self-respect in those of us who were his students, because he respected us regardless of our background.

We joyfully pray with grateful heart’s to welcome blessings in New Year.

For Zola, as for Huysmans, nature itself is uncanny because it is the domain of the feminine, a domain that is constitutionally defective, lacking, even pathological.

Money is for doing things, my love. Don't sit on it like a hen sits on an egg. It doesn't hatch. I should know. I've made enough of it.

My car broke down. Instead of AAA, I called AA by mistake. They could only move my car twelve steps.

The moral imperative to make big changes is inescapable...that what we take for granted may not be here for our children

The earth endured Christ's ministry only three years;--not three weeks after his real character and purposes were generally known.

The long and winding road that leads to your door / Will never disappear, / I've seen that road before it always leads me here, / Leads me to your door.

Imagination consists in expelling from reality several incomplete persons, and then using the magic and subversive powers of desire to bring them back in the form of one entirely satisfying presence.

You are only young once. At the time it seems endless, and is gone in a flash; and then for a very long time you are old.

You cannot win an election without a fight