Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.

It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.

Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.

When I have them working together, it's like a beautiful kaleidoscope.

For me, being an innovator doesn't mean being more intelligent, more rich, it's not a word, it's an action.

The idea is more important than the style you're playing in.

You don't have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don't have anything to do with placement. Numbers only have something to do with repetition.

I don't try to please when I play. I try to cure.

Music has many uses and I think the most perfected use that music has is one of a healing quality.

Whatever you do, it's over when you do it - but first you have to do it.

We in the Western world suffer from too many categories and classes; we've forgotten that we all still have diapers on. We've separated music from life.

Always learn poems by heart, ' she said. 'They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay.

The only sacrifice that costs you nothing is staring at ugly girls.

You will find no answers here, just choices.

I like how my body feels when I'm in shape; I love how it feels after I work out each day. Fitting in the clothes I like to wear comfortably and living a healthy lifestyle is important to me.

Aloneness is nearer God, nearer reality.

Praise is sunshine; it warms, it inspires, it promotes growth; blame and rebuke are rain and hail; they beat down and bedraggle, even though they may at times be necessary.

A surprising number of government committees will make important decisions on fundamental matters with less attention than each individual would give to buying a suit.

If not against us, nature is not for us.

I believe in God.....I gain strength from God. I believe in Jehovah, God, very much.....I believe in God and love God.

True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.