Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct.

There are 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit Number2- Never forget rule number 1.

Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession, it's a compulsion.

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.

The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.

If you have a great band with a mediocre drummer, you have a mediocre band. If you have a mediocre band with a great drummer, you have a great band!

Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.

You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it's bad.

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.

Well, what's reality, then? Is it what I think or what other people think?

We are all roamers of vast spaces and travelers in many ages.

Things stayed peaceful in there, even as the crashing vehicles and the cries of the injured and dying reached a crescendo outside. "I fry mine in butter!" indeed.

The fathers have eaten a sour grape and the children's teeth are set on edge.

Knowledge and wisdom must go hand in hand. The adept will therefore endeavour to get on in knowledge as well as in wisdom, for neither of the two must lag behind in development.

Why was it that they could never shout like that about anything that mattered?

Everything is painful, so why not be honest about the pain?

I find good people good And I find bad people good If I am good enough.

Redeemers always reach the world too late. God dies, we live; God lives, we die. Our fate.

Stark times remind our souls that things do not matter...people do.