In jazz, there is a lot of European influence harmonically.

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.

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

Music is a reservoir... of sounds.

If he is a God of sound judgment, that sound mind must be revealed in people who identify themselves with him on daily basis

The darkness that surrounds us cannot hurt us. It is the darkness in your own heart you should fear.

…the universe…sets out little signposts for us along the way, to confirm that we’re on the right path.” (p.XV)

You can have a wedding at Fenway Park.

We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.

Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat it.

Ads represent the main channel of intellectual and artistic effort in the modern world.

Dreams haunted The Riverworld.

I always thought of my career as a body of work and not just about numbers.