I would like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.

I tried practicing for a few weeks and ended up playing too fast.

Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.

The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity.

Milton, of all people, gave the most perfect definition of the state of mind required to play jazz: ' with wanton heed and giddy cunning.' That's how you play jazz.

I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to sound like a dry martini.

Not for me. If I want to tune everybody out, I just take off my glasses and enjoy the haze.

It was never supposed to be a hit. It was supposed to be a Joe Morello drum solo.

I discovered early in life that if you take gym first period, you can go into the wrestling room and sit in the corner and sleep.

I was unfashionable before anyone knew who I was.

Our basic audience begins with creaking elderly types of twenty-three and above.

Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.

Wrong thinking will take your life the wrong way, channeling your thoughts to the right direction will cause you to soar in life.

Look, I am living. On what? Neither childhood nor futurelessens . . . . Superabundant existencewells in my heart.

A man without a wife is like a house without a roof.” - Abdulazeez Henry Musa.

The great advances in science usually result from new tools rather than from new doctrines.

Anyone who rides a bike is a friend of mine.

A nonreader is somebody standing there in a blindfold.

Change your mind about something significant every day.

The only woman to whom it has been given to touch what is decisive in the present world and to have a presentiment of the world of the future.