Jazz has been the voice of freedom for so many countries over the past half century.

Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.

The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.

Don't be afraid to expand yourself, to step out of your comfort zone. That's where the joy and the adventure lie.

You would not exist if you did not have something to bring to the table of life.

Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference.

Forget about trying to compete with someone else. Create your own pathway. Create your own new vision.

I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn.

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

The most valuable things in life are priceless. They are courage, compassion, wisdom, respect for ourselves and others, and a host of characteristics that we call the beauty of the human spirit.

The land is in the bones. The earth will be packed with sinful souls. And there will still walk a body that will not be willing to change for the better.

Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.

Where there is love, there is bound to be heartache.

Every path hath a puddle.

A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.

You might as well learn right now, you two, that the poorest guide you can have in life is what people will say.

I'mma just do me, when it feel right.

Really, if I'm honest, sci-fi is where my sensibility instinctively goes - I'm a big comic-book fan.

My sons love LeBron more than they love me. I'm just a little jealous about it.

I guess some things never change.