My people are Americans. My time is today.

Life is a lot like jazz. It's best when you improvise.

True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time.

Originality is the only thing that counts. But the originator uses material and ideas that occur round him and pass through him. And out of his experience comes the original creation.

Jazz is one of the best things that you can find in your life, it can always be your friend.

I like to think of music as an emotional science.

Look at the piano. You'll notice that there are white notes and black notes. Figure out the difference between them and you'll be able to make whatever kind of music you want.

Jazz I regard as an American folk music; not the only one, but a very powerful one which is probably in the blood and feeling of the American people more than any other style of folk music.

Music sets up certain vibration which unquestionably results in a physical reaction. Eventually the proper vibration for every person will be found and utilized.

I didn't even start playing the piano until I was about 13 or 14. I guess I must have had a little talent or whatever-you-call-it, but I practised regularly, and that's what counts.

Why should I limit myself to only one woman when I can have as many women as I want?

I have never known the time when I did not wear stays. My stays are part of me.

Lying has become so much the accepted norm that people lie even when it would be simpler to tell the truth.

I'm more focused at the plate- that's the key.

Perhaps this is what it means to go mad: to be emptied and to be aware of the emptiness.

You see, you don't get old from age, you get old from inactivity, from not believing in something.

Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.

An unforgettable tale of love, lust, faith, betrayal, and redemption. A powerful, mesmerizing suspense novel-a tour de force!

Lincoln was not a type. He stands alone - no ancestors, no fellows, no successors.

Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has for every occasion only one dress and one path, and is always at a disadvantage.

My general plan would be to make the States one as to everything connected with foreign nations and several as to everything purely domestic.