It's not what you play, it's how you play it.

One way and another I was having a ball - playing gigs, jamming and listening to fine musicians. Then came a crisis at home. My stepfather fell sick, and it meant I had to support the family.

I wonder what an agent would do if he had to travel with the band he's booking.

Anything you are shows up in your music - jazz is whatever you are, playing yourself, being yourself, letting your thoughts come through.

Many people forget that Jazz, no matter what form it takes, must come from the heart as well as the mind.

If you work on your talent, the plans will fall in automatically.

I have been tied up with music for about as long as I can remember. By the time I was four I was picking out little tunes my mother played on the reed organ in the living-room.

Within a few hours I had them off, was about ready to play the shows. That night I opened, and during the week Harris was over to the house to talk my mother into letting me leave home.

Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.

I see foxes often, but always they are crossing fallow fields in the distance. Gold flecks on faraway expanses of green. Magnetic to the meandering eye. Enigmatic, unreachable.

I am isolated. I sit in a glass ball, I see people through a glass wall. I scream, but they do not hear me.- Ellen West

If the Times gave readers far more news, then Lippmann at the Trib made the world seem far more understandable.

Coming from an Asian culture, I was always taught to respect my elders, to be a better listener than a talker.

People ultimately get what they deserve on TV. What people end up watching is what the advertising end up glomming onto and promoting.

Pale January lay In its cradle day by day Dead or living, hard to say.

I'm an artist first and foremost. So things are gonna go up and down and sideways and whichever way all through life.

Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.

Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter.