There's so much beautiful music in the world, and the kids are getting robbed.

Because the stuff that they feed kids now, they'll have a bunch of idiots in the next millennium as far as art and culture is concerned.

The Japanese actually approach the music on a high level. It's always been on a high level.

You know the drum was the first instrument besides the human voice.

If I couldn't do it, then I'd be defeated. I've got the tools to do it. I never did question my tools.

If somebody would come and they're not playing music, they would encounter certain people on another level.

Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz isn't.

The French - they like jazz, theyve been on jazz a long time.

Theres so much beautiful music in the world, and the kids are getting robbed.

It's something that - jazz is one of the few things that you can go and listen to, I don't care where you're from, what you are, what background you come from - there's something there for you.

I might have played a little bit more in Europe than I have in Japan.

We take to the breeze, we go as we please.

People who fail, excel at avoiding opportunity.

Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.

Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words.

Why spend the afternoon making a meal that will be gone in an hour," she'd ask us, "when in the same amount of time, I can do a painting that will last forever?

Don't let anybody walk through your mind with dirty feet.

You can't help what you feel, but you can help how you behave

Hearkners, we say, seldom hear good of themselves.

Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse.

Court each other forever.