Music is supposed to wash away the dust of everyday life

Jazz washes away the dust of every day life.

A name doesn't make the music. It's just called that to differentiate it from other types of music.

So go on and play, and if you make a mistake, make it loud so you won't make it next time.

Jazz, I mean, music will always move, because it can't become stagnant. Because if it becomes stagnant, it's like a river, it'll kill us all. It has to keep moving, music will always flow.

It takes an intelligent ear to listen to Jazz.

If you feel like tapping your feet, tap your feet.

That.s what Jazz music is all about.We started the Messengers because somebody had to mind the store for jazz.No America--no Jazz. It is the only culture that America has brought forth.

All you have to do is be able to feel.

They say that Jazz is back, and I don't think it's gone anywhere. But they say it's back.

What ever truth drops on it eventually grinds to a powder.

If Jesus looks too feminine to us, maybe it says more about our understanding of masculinity than it does about a possible conspiracy to feminize the church and men.

Rise up to wise up.

Everything is out there if you know how to find it, and have the patience. I don't and haven't, but that's my problem.

I'm a very romantic person.

To err is nature, to rectify error is glory.

I was a neophyte in another world [in 1954].

A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.

Electronic music is really weird right, because it is bleeding into the mainstream, but, at the same time, it's fashion.

The time that we kill keeps us alive.

Just as our taste in lovers is far more revealing than our choice of friends, the object of an artist's obsession can open up doors to their soul that might otherwise remain shut tight.