Never play anything that don't sound right. You might not make any money, but at least you won't get hostile with yourself.

Ragtime was my lullaby.

Slow motion gets you there faster.

The trouble with doing nothing is that you can never take any time off.

I know Mother named me after a railroad man, but it's too late now, I'm afraid. Much, much too late.

In Hollywood, the rainbow hits the ground for composers.

Traveling with a big band is like being an inmate in a traveling zoo.

I don't think I'll ever be president of anything.

I'm singing the music publisher's theme song - it ain't a commercial.

You sittin' here chained to your rockin' chair.

Politics is all about dividing up the power. Washington D.C. likes to talk about spreading the wealth, but never spreading the power.

Maybe the one had to be lost for the others to be found?

By providing clear objectives for your team, and setting guardrails for how they get there, you will set them on the path to success.

historical research of the truly scholastic kind is not connected with human beings at all. It is a pure study, like higher mathematics.

To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent.

I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.

Power is the ability to achieve purpose.

Consciousness does affect matter.

The rest of the world lives to eat, while I eat to live.

No man is prejudiced in favor of a thing, knowing it to be wrong. He is attached to it on the belief of its being right; and when he sees it is not so, the prejudice will be gone.