If you can't play the Blues you might as well hang it up.

When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition.

I hope we left you with something to put under your pillows.

Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people.

Jazz is a beautiful word. I love it.

What I'm doing, I prefer to call that jazz, because it is a beautiful word - I love it.

Bebop is the music of the future (as soon as they learn how to play it).

In nuclear war, all men are cremated equal.

Jazz is an octopus. It will take whatever it can use and it will work with it.

Music is a reservoir... of sounds.

To have a little recognition, that is very nice, you dig. It is good for the ego, for the psyche.

On the basis of this information, it would be possible to argue that if everybody spoke English (or Chinese or Esperanto for that matter) everybody would be at war even more often.

One's sovereignty over the land is expressed most powerfully in the act of banishment. Perhaps the first eviction recorded in human history was Adam and Eve's.

Physical exercise promotes positive self-image, high-productivity and energetic wellbeing.

Conservatism... offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

Fear doesn't prevent death, but it certainly prevents life.

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.

A belief is not a belief until you can visualize it, unless you can create a picture of it in your minds eye, especially if you have no doubts that reality can be - or is - possible.

If you're not lost, you're not much of an explorer.

There's no better feeling than making somebody smile.

I remain the optimist: you just do your best and hope for the best. But it's an evolving state of mind.