Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz isn't.

Because the stuff that they feed kids now, they'll have a bunch of idiots in the next millennium as far as art and culture is concerned.

The Japanese actually approach the music on a high level. It's always been on a high level.

You know the drum was the first instrument besides the human voice.

If I couldn't do it, then I'd be defeated. I've got the tools to do it. I never did question my tools.

If somebody would come and they're not playing music, they would encounter certain people on another level.

The French - they like jazz, theyve been on jazz a long time.

Theres so much beautiful music in the world, and the kids are getting robbed.

It's something that - jazz is one of the few things that you can go and listen to, I don't care where you're from, what you are, what background you come from - there's something there for you.

I might have played a little bit more in Europe than I have in Japan.

I enjoy seeing young people being interested in what they can do.

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Loving someone is sticking a pin through a voodoo doll and not hitting any vital organs

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the w

I don't need anyone, I said.Then you cameI need I need! I NEED YOU. I needed you.What did you teach me?Not to need you.NOT TO NEED.

Social entrepreneurs are not content just to give a fish or teach how to fish. They will not rest until they have revolutionized the fishing industry.

What can be expressed in words can be expressed in life.

Luckily for me, I genuinely like my audience. They really are a good bunch.

If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first.

If somebody's not prepared to answer the question, you can keep asking

Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time.