The symphonic orchestras have sponsors, people who give them endowments, and I think it should be the same way with jazz - because this is a national treasure.

There are no natural barriers. It's all music. It's either hip or it ain't.

It's either hip or it ain't.

You will be successful only in the field of your gift

Mankind must live in harmony with one another.

We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.

If you can get good at destroying your own wrong ideas, that is a great gift.

Do not look back and do not dream about the future. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward, your destiny, is in the present moment

There comes a time when money doesn't matter.

True love isn't the kind that endures through long years of absence, but the kind that endures through long years of propinquity.

The grandchildren of the kids who used to weep because the Little Match Girl froze to death now feel cheated if she isn't slugged, raped and thrown into a Bessemer converter.

I'm a tough coach, but on the other side of that is me telling them to go all out, "because you're great, because I don't want you to fail, because you were born to do this and you have a dream."

Making the world safe for diversity, is one of the greatest tasks we face in the global era.