Sometimes you have to forget your principles and do what’s right.

Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.

Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time.

If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world.

My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

I think I have more in common with a carpenter than you might think. We're putting things together.

God has a way of telling you when to change your strings.

You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work.

When you're working in front of an audience, you have incentive to excel.

I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.

There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians.

I don't want to do anything. I don't even want to start this day because then I'll just be expected to finish it.

When you are not full of the Holy Spirit, you easily cower in fear and lack a stand on truth

You've got to be ready to be in a great relationship.

You can HAVE, DO or BE, anything you want! It's a choice and it's YOUR CHOICE.

The temptation to entertain instead of selling is contagious.

You are an endless conglomeration of awareness. You're not one singular self. You're a corporation.

[How to train your dragon] is beautiful to look at and, again, those values that it contains about relationships, friendships, and bonding in the face of ignorance.

Do you want to be happy? Forget yourself and get lost in this great cause.

Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.

With modelling, you go somewhere for 24 hours and you don't even see the city, you don't talk to people or see the culture.