Jazz isn't as profitable for labels like Hip hop or Rap. Jazz needs subsidies to continue, just like European classical works of Bach and Beethoven are subsidized.

I prefer music where melody, harmony and rhythm come together and no one element overshadows the other. Jazz at its best is a democracy of creativity.

You don't need sunglasses inside a building in the middle of the night.

Teaching is learning. When you're teaching full-time you have to do research, stay current.

I had to agonize over my selection since our music is so rich and all the above plus many others have contributed.

I think of the five generations it will take before [Mr. Perfect]'s born, and I want to scream. I want someone now. I want someone who will look into my eyes and understand everything behind them.

you cannot give to people what they are incapable of receiving.

George Bush says, 'Gore's book needs a lot of explaining.' Of course, Bush says that about every book.

and yet I feel that the most real home I'll ever have is the space where our roads merged and traveled along together... for a time.

It strikes me as bad manners for a magazine to accept one of my advertisements and then attack it editorially - like inviting a man to dinner then spitting in his eye.

Only he who gives thanks for the little things receives the big things.

The courtroom is a quiet place, Judge Roberts, where you park your political ideology, and you call the balls and you call the strikes.

The greatest crime is not developing your potential. When you do what you do best, you are helping not only yourself, but the world.

I absolutely do not need a salary or a job, that's the last thing I need.

This does not --ing slip now.