Music is a reservoir... of sounds.

When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition.

I hope we left you with something to put under your pillows.

Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people.

Jazz is a beautiful word. I love it.

What I'm doing, I prefer to call that jazz, because it is a beautiful word - I love it.

Bebop is the music of the future (as soon as they learn how to play it).

In nuclear war, all men are cremated equal.

Jazz is an octopus. It will take whatever it can use and it will work with it.

If you can't play the Blues you might as well hang it up.

To have a little recognition, that is very nice, you dig. It is good for the ego, for the psyche.

I like your mind when it plays with mine. We harmonize, like a dirty sweet symphony.

Then, as now, there were always girls who were overlooked and ignored by gentlemen who really should have known better.

People took some part of us and used it to discriminate against us. In our case, it was our ethnicity; it's precisely the same thing for sexual orientation.

They kept on hollering, and I simply had to put my foot down. I said, 'I'm the governor and I say the ignorant in this state have to learn, blacks as well as whites.' And they learned.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

For national and social disasters, for moral and financial evils, the cure begins in the Household.

If I can play a little part in the world's healing, and making it a better place than when I came, then I just thank God for that chance.

If I were only allowed to read or enjoy art or listen to music made by people whose opinions and beliefs were the same as mine, I think the world would be a pretty dismal sort of a place.

A man who loves you the most is the man who tells you the most truth about yourself.

I have no apologies, no regrets. I gave my very best efforts.... I've been hung in effigy. I've been spat upon. You just have to let those things bounce off .