Listening to Benny [Goodman] talk about the clarinet was like listening to a surgeon get hung up on a scalpel.

'Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a 'swing band' in music.

If you don’t see the wonder in the most ordinary phenomenon, you’re not going to resonate very much.

If you wanna dance, a windshield wiper'll do it-all you need is a beat.

I did all you can do with a clarinet. Any more would have been less.

Jazz was born out of the whiskey bottle, was raised on marijiana, and will expire on cocaine.

You have no idea of the women I didn't marry.

An audience is in many respects no more than a mob under loose control.

The good old days are neither better nor worse than the ones we're living through right now.

An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself.

Somebody asked me once, 'Do you think that swing will ever come back?' And I said, 'Do you think the 1938 Ford will ever come back?'

Faith is one of only two things in mankind's consciousness that defies discussion. The other is one's marriage.

I've been dating since I was 15 years old, and I just don't seem to do it well.

We will kill in ourselves a world in order to build another, a higher one reaching to the heavens.

Bright lights, they tend to burn out fast. So I shine bright, but I'm scared that it won't last.

She [Hillary Clinton] wants to go to a single-payer plan, which would be a disaster...she wants to go to single-payer, which means the government basically rules everything.

There is no such thing as a naval dictatorship.

And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!

Simperium seems like a genuine utility for our own apps, and for other people as a service. And Simplenote, as a product, I love, and it's just darn handy.

And biblically, again, I'm going to go right back to my fundamental Christian beliefs marriage is between one man and one woman.

Google's not a real company. It's a house of cards.