Life is a lot like jazz. It's best when you improvise.

True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time.

Originality is the only thing that counts. But the originator uses material and ideas that occur round him and pass through him. And out of his experience comes the original creation.

Jazz is one of the best things that you can find in your life, it can always be your friend.

I like to think of music as an emotional science.

Look at the piano. You'll notice that there are white notes and black notes. Figure out the difference between them and you'll be able to make whatever kind of music you want.

Jazz I regard as an American folk music; not the only one, but a very powerful one which is probably in the blood and feeling of the American people more than any other style of folk music.

Music sets up certain vibration which unquestionably results in a physical reaction. Eventually the proper vibration for every person will be found and utilized.

I didn't even start playing the piano until I was about 13 or 14. I guess I must have had a little talent or whatever-you-call-it, but I practised regularly, and that's what counts.

Why should I limit myself to only one woman when I can have as many women as I want?

It is always possible to create something original.

Let your choice be: reject the wrong, but choose the right.

To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus...

I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachussets she needs none. There she is. Behold her and judge for yourselves.

That's kind of the weird thing that M. Night Shyamalan has sort of unleashed upon the world is this need for every movie to have these ridiculous endings.

With our trade deals we are always second. You can pick any country and they're eating our lunch and making us look bad and so we're going to change that.

Because we have put ourselves in our own zoo, we find it difficult to break out.

I'm for sure a workaholic. I'm a complete control freak and I take on way too many projects.

Eloquence is logic on fire.

Do you want to feel good, or do you want to do good?

It is too late in the day for men of sincerity to pretend they believe in the Platonic mysticisms that three are one, and one is three; and yet that the one is not three, and the three are not one.