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

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!

Paul Desmond sounds like a female alcoholic.

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

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

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.

A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum.

Once people get into relationships, friends and rational thought get tossed aside.

Magic is logic.

We form our impression not globally, by placing ourselves in the broadest possible context, but locally, by comparing ourselves to people in the same boat as ourselves.

Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order that engenders violence in the oppressors, which in turn dehumanizes the oppressed

Democratic openings that come about in that way - the overthrow of a totalitarian government by external powers - it makes it really hard to make those first steps toward democracy.

If you make too many things too public, then you end up living your life before the court of public opinion.

There is beauty to be found in the changing of the earth’s seasons, and an inner grace in honouring the cycles of life.

Karma is a medicine which is given for our own good. Karma is the law of compensation, not of vengeance.

I eat eight bags of chips in one sitting, and then nothing for a day or two. I learned that my body thought it was starving, so it would hold on to fat.