Thelonius Monk was not exactly 'the guy next door'.

When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition.

I hope we left you with something to put under your pillows.

Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people.

Jazz is a beautiful word. I love it.

What I'm doing, I prefer to call that jazz, because it is a beautiful word - I love it.

Bebop is the music of the future (as soon as they learn how to play it).

In nuclear war, all men are cremated equal.

Jazz is an octopus. It will take whatever it can use and it will work with it.

If you can't play the Blues you might as well hang it up.

Music is a reservoir... of sounds.

Понякога трябва да се предадеш, за да победиш.

A happy childhood can fortify one against the ravages of life, and part of that happiness is found in books, which become our constant companions for the rest of our lives.

I will find a way, or I will make one.

His heart cracked open and flooded all the space around it.

Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk.

Apparently vodka helps flowers last longer when they're dying. But you can put vodka in anything and it'll make it better.

You are killing me, fish, the old man thought. But you have a right to. Never have I seen a greater, or more beautiful, or a calmer or more noble thing than you, brother.

Most of my conscious efforts have ended in embarrassing failure.

Once negro community recognize it as such, they can adopt the same measures against the community that harbors the criminals who are responsible for this activity.

a great moment raises most of the people who experience it, to its own level; and that is why they do not always recognize its greatness - or their own.