Jazz is a beautiful word. I love it.

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.

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.

To have a little recognition, that is very nice, you dig. It is good for the ego, for the psyche.

Losing your job is an awesome opportunity to look inside yourself and make new discoveries

The world is your oyster...YOU determine the value of the pearl!

A good leader lead from the heart not the head.

It's good as an artist to always remember to see things in a new, weird way.

There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.

I do not want to see BP nickel and diming these businesses that are having a tough time.

Our greatest evil flows from ourselves.

At this point in my life, I'm not looking for any happy endings. I'm just looking to get things started.

Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart.

This moment of dawning is called taqwa - God-consciousness, and ihsan - awareness. Suddenly you know that God can see you and knows you, even if you do not know or see Him.