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

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.

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!

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

Your destiny is the only path to be travelled by you.

It is not possible to be intellectually honest and believe in gods. And it is not possible to believe in gods and be a true scientist.

A wise man in his house should find a wife gentle and courteous, or no wife at all.

What's sad is that there is an addictive quality to that, to believing your own hype; to allowing yourself to become validated by others and no longer by yourself. That's the danger of celebrity

He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.

Everything in the Universe was as the Creator willed it - nothing superfluous, nothing lacking - a harmony.

Open your eyes, soldier,” Tatiana said fondly, caressing his face.“Are you hungry?” “I was hungry,” Alexander said. “But you fed me.” His body was shaking underneath his sheet.

The tactician must know what to do whenever something needs doing; the strategist must know what to do when nothing needs doing

The old story is true:Women have to be less emotional than men.

One good thing about TV Land is you're always surrounded by people who know what they're doing, in terms of your fellow actors.