Imitate, assimilate & innovate.

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.

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

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

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.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

The more we learn of outer space and inner space, of quasars and quarks, of Big Bangs and Little Blips, the more remote, abstract and intellectually inconsequential it all becomes.

Greatness and nearsightedness are incompatible. Meaningful achievement depends on lifting one's sights and pushing toward the horizon.

Kindness trumps everything. Kind people are magnets for all of the good things in life.

Build a heterogeneous team to close three gaps in innovation management - idea gaps, collaboration gaps, and implementation gaps

His hair was red, and his eyes were a color blue that put the ocean to shame.

But such a person also has that annoying voice in the back of her head constantly reminding her that merely "coasting by" in life isn't an accomplishment.

Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

I dream of a Digital India where knowledge is strength - and empowers the People.