Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for your magnificent indifference.

As a musician you have to keep one foot back in the past and have one foot forward into the future.

I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.

Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that.

It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.

One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.

You can't steal a gift. Bird [Charlie Parker] gave the world his music, and if you can hear it you can have it.

I try to play the bare essence, to let everything be just what it's supposed to be.

The sign of a mature musician is knowing what not to play.

There have been two great revelations in my life: The first was bepop, the second was homeopathy.

Where there's no mutual respect, there's trouble!

When you have your revenue streams set up the right way, you can be confident the dollars are rolling in no matter what

Birthdays were made for going wild over the people we think are amazing.

I like you and your book, ingenious Hone! In whose capacious all-embracing leaves The very marrow of tradition 's shown; And all that history, much that fiction weaves.

When you leave your home, think that you have numerous opponents waiting for you (it is your behavior that invites trouble from them).

Our children can achieve great things when we set high expectations for them.

Keep up your courage, stay true to what you believe in.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind

I have to say that I have been blessed with significant teachers at every stage of my life.

I don't really have a problem 'cause I know who these people are, I know that they're scared to death. I know these leftists with scared and they oppose and that they're inflexible.

I had a terrible job letting me do anything that wasn't comedy.