Oscar Peterson plays the best ivory box I've ever heard.

Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues.

Learn to deal with the valleys and the hills will take care of themselves.

It's the way you play that makes it . . . Play like you play. Play like you think, and then you got it, if you're going to get it. And whatever you get, that's you, so that's your story.

If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune.

The real innovators did their innovating by just being themselves.

If you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!

I was always willing to say, "Let's see what happens," when something came up that looked like it might help me get a little closer to where I wanted to be . . .

Keep on listening & tapping your feet.

I think the band can really swing when it swings easy, when it can just play along like you are cutting butter.

All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel ... and that's what I've been doing all my life.

Set me free, let me be me, let me fly, fly high and away, let me breathe freedom...

Believe in your dreams for that is what makes you magical.

He kissed me fiercely, with an utter abandon that I could no more put a halt to than I could stop an avalanche.

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.

I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I'm an idiot.

The only true language in the world is a kiss.

'The Lorax,'...it's a mythical, woodland creature, right, who's for saving trees. He speaks for the trees because no one else can. Kind of the way conservatives speak for fetuses.

If you're going to make a comedy and if your sole interest is in making people laugh and feel good and entertaining them, then you check your ego at the door.

Don't take this the wrong way but I care more and I'm a better online friend than you. I also spend way to much time online.

Who would have ever thought I'd be afraid of a zombie, any kind of zombie? Nicely ironic that.