The jazz musician's function is to feel.

The hippest thing you can do is not play at all. Just listen.

It's not instant composing; it's not following any kind of a formula. All you do is hear music in your head and reproduce it.

Dave Frank is one of the few people that can REALLY play!

Once-upon-a-time we buried the memories we didn't want.

One who has unreliable friends may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty. But one no longer has the right to say so aloud.

It is not polite for a Russian to interfere in British politics.

The job of the artist, is to say, wait a second, everything that we have thought is wrong. Let's re-examine it.

There are no atheists in the foxholes of Bataan.

Some songs you get. Some songs you may not. And I think that's the beauty of art: to question and to ask, to understand the deeper meaning after two or three or four listenings.

Changing schools and friends is hard on children and can often make them desperate and lonely enough to form closer ties with a sibling.

Ideas are worthless if you can’t make them happen.

How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books. They make us think that we really understand things of which we have no practical knowledge at all.