There are some people that if they don't know you can't tell 'em.

Every time I close my eyes blowing that trumpet of mine, I look right into the heart of good old New Orleans. It has given me something to live for.

Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.

Don't do nothing halfway, else you find yourself dropping more than can be picked up.

What we play is life.

I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right - shame on you.

If I don’t practice for a day, I know it. If I don’t practice for two days, the critics know it. And if I don’t practice for three days, the public knows it.

Each man has his own music bubbling up inside him.

And I think to myself what a wonderful world. Oh, yeah.

If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.

A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original.

If your leadership is truly grounded in love, you’ll always land in the category of a good leader.

perhaps we would bear our sadnesses with greater trust than we have in our joys

I would always be lonely, but no more alone.

Only the rocks live forever, Gray Wolf said.

So much importance pressed into so few words. It was just like Jacin.

I’m doing boy detox. Like a diet, only for my emotional health.

"Jeez, was that a lion? Please tell me it’s behind bars." "It’s a zoo, Iggy,” Nudge said, taking his arms and leading him. "Everything’s behind bars."

Simulation is the situation created by any system of signs when it becomes sophisticated enough, autonomous enough, to abolish its own referent and to replace it with itself.

A sports expert is the guy who writes the best alibis for being wrong

We don't know our own story.