People always want to protect what's really going on inside. They want to kind of make visible something that looks more pleasant than what may be happening inside of themselves.

Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.

The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.

Don't be afraid to expand yourself, to step out of your comfort zone. That's where the joy and the adventure lie.

You would not exist if you did not have something to bring to the table of life.

Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference.

Forget about trying to compete with someone else. Create your own pathway. Create your own new vision.

I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn.

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

The most valuable things in life are priceless. They are courage, compassion, wisdom, respect for ourselves and others, and a host of characteristics that we call the beauty of the human spirit.

There is love and then there is fluff. Nothing else.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

Everything I'm doing musically is for its own sake. I'm recording at my house, trying really hard to write songs with a four-track tape recorder.

But what is Freedom? Rightly understood, A universal licence to be good.

...in the habit of watching every bit of human life I can see about my windows, but I do it so that I am not observed at it.

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.

You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.

I will persist until I succeed!

Your library teacher would say, "What happens to a generation that doesn't read the Classics?" Me, I'm not your library teacher. But I have some of the same questions and concerns, you know?

Each year, therefore, a dollar spent on alcoholic beverages has purchased a smaller quantity.