One way and another I was having a ball - playing gigs, jamming and listening to fine musicians. Then came a crisis at home. My stepfather fell sick, and it meant I had to support the family.

I wonder what an agent would do if he had to travel with the band he's booking.

It's not what you play, it's how you play it.

Anything you are shows up in your music - jazz is whatever you are, playing yourself, being yourself, letting your thoughts come through.

Many people forget that Jazz, no matter what form it takes, must come from the heart as well as the mind.

If you work on your talent, the plans will fall in automatically.

I have been tied up with music for about as long as I can remember. By the time I was four I was picking out little tunes my mother played on the reed organ in the living-room.

Within a few hours I had them off, was about ready to play the shows. That night I opened, and during the week Harris was over to the house to talk my mother into letting me leave home.

Management innovation has both hard elements such as process and metrics

A picture can tell a thousand words, but a few words can change it’s story.

[David] Bowie's last album "Blackstar" featured him backed by a jazz quartet.

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

I was talking to Jesus, and I said, Jesus, I feel like no one will ever accept me. And Jesus looked at me and said, You know what my theory is? Accept me or go to hell.

Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies.

You know, I think more people should watch women's basketball. It'd do so much for the game.

Writers themselves don't analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.

If you will assume your desire and live there as though it were true, no power on earth can stop it from becoming a fact.

To explain too much is to steal a person's opportunity to learn, and stealing is against the Law.