The trumpet is forceful.

Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life.

The way we look at it, everything is a sound.

Play as well as you can all the time, and if you're truthful to your thing, you'll succeed.

We're just beginning to learn the importance of music in our society.

Many times you never know what's going to happen. You'll play songs that you never thought you were going to play.

I always tell my students when you're going to be a jazz musician the first thing you've got to do is be a professional musician, and that means you have to feed yourself with the instrument.

A chord is just the name of a sound.

We just can't go and try to turn the clock back, that's not happening anymore. You've got to figure something else out.

The music we play is kind of hard to explain. It's music that we really feel.

It's just about really being sensitive, and trying to play a music that is about music.

No church or synagogue pew can produce a higher awareness of God than sitting at the base of a tree and observing His creation.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being not having.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

As a young man I prayed for success. Now I just pray to be worthy of it.

Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.

Work is valued by the social value of the worker.

Welcome to the Customer Revolution, where you are no longer in charge. Your customer is.

When a country is strong... it accepts any dose of pessimism from its writers.

Is only a tennis match. At the end, that's life. There is much more important things.

No, thank you," said Adrian. "These hands don't sully themselves with fighting.