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.

Jazz is about being in the moment.

Read. Read until your eyes are sore. Then read some more.

Every wheatfield of human thought after a while becomes filled with cockle; then the husbandmen destroy the grain with the cockle and plant anew.

Sometimes we win; more times than not, we don't. But that's his choice.

Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame.

We are trying to do our best to bring perfection into whatever we turn our attention to.

There is no post-9/11. Everything from now until the end of time is post-9/11.

I definitely didn't fit in perfectly to the school system. I was raised with such freedom of speech and thinking.

Thoughts are odd misfires.

Arise, soldiers of Christ, throw away the works of darkness and put on the armor of light.

Most works are most beautiful without ornament.