The Japanese actually approach the music on a high level. It's always been on a high level.

Because the stuff that they feed kids now, they'll have a bunch of idiots in the next millennium as far as art and culture is concerned.

You know the drum was the first instrument besides the human voice.

If I couldn't do it, then I'd be defeated. I've got the tools to do it. I never did question my tools.

If somebody would come and they're not playing music, they would encounter certain people on another level.

Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz isn't.

The French - they like jazz, theyve been on jazz a long time.

Theres so much beautiful music in the world, and the kids are getting robbed.

It's something that - jazz is one of the few things that you can go and listen to, I don't care where you're from, what you are, what background you come from - there's something there for you.

I might have played a little bit more in Europe than I have in Japan.

I enjoy seeing young people being interested in what they can do.

Sinning when alone is easy but Worshipping alone is difficult.

Men go to the ballpark with an assumed knowledge and interest, whereas women need to constantly demonstrate how much they know and care.

Psychology which explains everything, explains nothing.

Keep people in your life who truly love you, motivate you, and make you happy. If you know people who do none of these things, let them go.

I was listening to music long before rock 'n roll.

Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, but also in anticipating them.

Destroying species is like tearing pages out of an unread book, written in a language humans hardly know how to read, about the place where they live.

I am seeing a resurgence of entertainment that not only entertains, but inspires, evokes, and moves. I am seeing strength in the ability of artistic expression to change our future.

Maybe the most interesting find in my research is that it is clear that Ronald Reagan, among all modern presidents, plainly rediscovered the founders.