That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.

When you're dealing with music without words, titles are more a means of identification than anything else. What's the point of getting lofty?

One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community.

Pop doesn't really look back. It can't. What makes pop work is simplicity.

You don't know what you like, you like what you know. In order to know what you like, you have to know everything.

What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America.

I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.

A lot of musicians have a tough time hearing what we're doing in a trio format.

I think that if you keep banging at the door all you need is a little foothold, a little tiny foothold, and then the rest will take care of itself.

So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians.

Coltrane came to New Orleans one day and he was talking about the jazz scene. And Coltrane mentions that the problem with jazz was that there were too few groups.

Time just gets away from us.

POW 369, I should salute you from this heart of mine. And thank you for placing your life on the line.

Mostly, you become a writer not because you want to get rich or famous, but because you have to write; because there is something inside that must come out.

I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That's what happiness is.

It became necessary to destroy the town to save it.

Hitler's strength as a leader is that he almost always works through the power of his persuasion; rarely does he command.

Government works best under the glare of public scrutiny. Absent such scrutiny, abuses occur.

Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars.

The sad truth is that most Christians spend their entire lives trying to score points with Someone who is not keeping score.

Lucidity, I maintain, is almost always desirable.