There's no future without the past and anybody who doesn't really understand where jazz has come from has no right to try to direct where it's going.

Hipness is not a state of mind, It's a fact of life!

I keep reverting (to Duke Ellington), he to me is the greatest ever and my favorite jazz philosopher, as such.

You don't decide you're hip. It just happens that way.

Ironically your greatest spiritual asset is what appears to be your greatest obstacle: your obsession with yourself. Today we live in the age of individualism. – Richard Harvey

It was right that she was now staying at the ranch. She belonged there.

I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself as against the saints who deny it.

Truth has no beginning.

I will either be famous or infamous.

We can no longer assert any single proposition, unless we guard ourselves by enumerating countless conditions which must be assumed.

For an actor, there is no greater loss than the loss of his audience.

Have you ever analyzed things to the degree where you can’t really remember the difference between what’s real and what you’ve created in your head?

In sooth I know not why I am so sad. It wearies me, you say it wearies you; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn.

When our goals are clearly defined and intelligently set, you have, in essence, taken a major step toward programming your left brain. That frees your right brain to be its creative best.