Jazz will be the classical music of the future.

As a musician you have to keep one foot back in the past and have one foot forward into the future.

I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.

Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that.

It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.

One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.

You can't steal a gift. Bird [Charlie Parker] gave the world his music, and if you can hear it you can have it.

I try to play the bare essence, to let everything be just what it's supposed to be.

The sign of a mature musician is knowing what not to play.

There have been two great revelations in my life: The first was bepop, the second was homeopathy.

Where there's no mutual respect, there's trouble!

Beyond speech and mind, Into the river of ever-effulgent LightMy heart dives.Today thousands of doors, closed for millennia, Are opened wide.

I don't hold Travis anymore, of course- not to read to him, or for any other reason, either. I wish I'd known that the last time was going to be the last time.

It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

He who understands, as always, can make his car work better than he who does not.

I think your program has to reflect what your basic feelings are. Ill plead guilty to that.

Lost In Space fans are going to get organized, because we'll see them showing up in all the theatres.

God is in everything whether I'm mentioning him or not.

Faith is not like bottled water but like rain. Its destiny is not just to be kept and held but to make something visible grow.

I have pursued her, as love hath pursued me