Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference.

Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.

The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.

Don't be afraid to expand yourself, to step out of your comfort zone. That's where the joy and the adventure lie.

You would not exist if you did not have something to bring to the table of life.

Forget about trying to compete with someone else. Create your own pathway. Create your own new vision.

I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn.

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

The most valuable things in life are priceless. They are courage, compassion, wisdom, respect for ourselves and others, and a host of characteristics that we call the beauty of the human spirit.

Jazz is about being in the moment.

Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipw

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Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn't meant to convince anybody of anything.

It took great courage to ask a beautiful young woman to marry me. Believe me, it is easier to play the whole Petrushka on the piano.

If you have team spirit you can even beat better teams. As far as team sport is concerned China might need a change in attitude in comparison to the one in table tennis.

If you had to eat another human to survive, do you think they'd taste like their ethnic background?

We do not take much warning of our own mortality in seeing others die, nor of our own weakness in seeing others break down: we think we feel the springs of life stronger in us.

Mausoleum air and anguished pauses: If this production were a poem, it would be mostly white space.

Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth.

The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.