The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.

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.

I think one of the problems the Democrats have today is that they are an elitist party.

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.

Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans.

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.

What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus.

Delicacy in shaping desires of any kind will help to reach excellence, but failure will bring disaster.

Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column.

There are so many cities in every single city.

The tea was a comfort - and by that time I more than needed comfort.

... no man can be psychologically castrated without his co-operation!

The Infinite Way is not a message, it is an experience.

Bargain... anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on.

When a show fails to destroy the competition-and it can fail while attracting 20 million viewers-it is itself destroyed.

I derived my strength from daily mass and communion.