There is no communication in this world except between equals.

History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.

We're having a hard time understanding where jazz is going. What happened to jazz?

The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.

It is the great arrogance of the present to forget the intelligence of the past

I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's an active disengagement.

Do not lose your enthusiasm. In its Greek etymology, the word enthusiasm means, "God in us."

History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are.

People tend to forget that the word "history" contains the word "story".

By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of Jazz.

I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films.

The mathematicians are the priests of the modern world.

Time ripens all things

A tree doesn't make a thunderstorm, but any fool knows where lighting´s going to strike".

I lead a life of severe self-control mitigated by moments of impulse.

Our partner's sexuality does not belong to us. It isn't just for and about us, and we should not assume that it rightfully falls within our jurisdiction.

I don't watch penalties in my hotel room. I watch naughty videos

To be blessed is to live in gratitude, so that God can fulfill you forever.

In the eyes of dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for all times, nothing is absolute or sacred.

All of my stories are 95 percent truthful.

Bebop has set music back twenty years.