Ninety-five percent of my audience was white.

As long as you've got your horn in your mouth, you're developing.

If I can't play music, what am I gonna do? Music keeps people sane. When you enjoy yourself, most of the time the people who are listening to you enjoy it.

If I don't play for a while, it's just like getting hungry.

We were all influenced by Lester [Young]. Listen to the records that he made with [Count] Basie. Nobody's got what he's got. He's still the daddy.

Music keeps people sane.

I just take a tune and play it the only way I can. That's it. I don't really dwell on it very much. Some people probably do. I can only say I play it the way I feel it.

My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed.

The vision teller tells the vision to unguarded minds' of prey. The programmed.

Oooh you think I'm cute when I'm angry?? Well get ready, cause I'm about to get GORGEOUS!

Kindness is a rose, love is a bundle.

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

His smile was sexy and warned of trouble, but I'd made up my mind that not all trouble was bad.

What could be more important than equipping the next generation with the character and competence they need to become successful

...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill.

If you're the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.

Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.

Glendower: I can call the spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come, when you do call for them?