Krupa's drums went through us like a triple bourbon.

They flat their fifths, we drink ours.

As it enters the ear, does it come in like broken glass, or does it come in like honey?

Ted Lewis could make the clarinet talk. What it said was put me back in the case!

[Louis Armstrong] could play a trumpet like nobody else, then put it down and sing a song like no one else could.

Paul Desmond sounds like a female alcoholic.

For a bad hangover take the juice of two quarts of whisky.

Finally Beiderbecke came out with a silver cornet. He put it to his lips and blew a phrase. The sound came out like a girl saying 'yes'.

Brubeck, for instance, is not careless. He's a studied guy. And even if his picture ends up on the back cover of Life, he's still a studious guy.

Today be more excellent than demanded. And more generous than expected.

When anxiety comes knocking on your door, don't invite it in.

Grieve and mourn for yourself not once or twice, but again and again.

Steve Smith, thats what happened to us. He just kept making plays. We had a plan. We never really doubled him. We ran a lot of Cover 2, and obviously that didnt work out too good for us.

The young may die, but the old must!

Eating in a hurried or unconscious way, as so many of us have learned to do, is like receiving a love letter from the earth, but never taking the time to carefully read it.

Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that's how a book of poems is made, my Friend.

I was fascinated by my own prom pictures.

Our children must be offered an education up to par with thier potential-and equal to the needs of the Twenty-first century.

It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor.