Playing gives me as much good feeling now as it did when I was a bitty kid.

Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.

Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God.

Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.

Man, as long as people want to hear Jazz, I'll give it to them.

All art is communication of the artists' ideas, sounds, thoughts; without that no one will support the artist.

Every day I look forward to getting with my instruments, trying new things.

I'm motivated. The spirit hits me and I just keep going and don't stop. The more I play, the more I can invent, the more ideas come to me.

It's always Jazz. You can put a new dress on her, a new hat, but no matter what kind of clothes she's the same old broad.

Music was our wife and we loved her. We stayed with her, clothed her and put diamond rings on her hands.

I always figured I'd still be playing at this age.

What you want in life is possible to achieve. Find the courage and begin the work

The problem with all politicians is that they are human.

A powerful dragon crying its eyes out under the moon in a deserted valley is a sight and a sound hardly to be imagined.

I don't think she doesn't believe she can die. I think, just like you always did, she believes there are things worth dying for.

Industry prospers when it offers people articles which they want more than they want anything they now have. The fact is that people never buy what they need. They buy what they want.

Mathematicians are born, not made.

Some call me director, producer, filmmaker. I prefer to call myself pube-king.

The uncertainty of our future is nothing more than a fog of breath on a windowpane.

We cannot choose whether to engage with the world, only how to.

Humility is the mark of a genuine disciple.