They're not particular whether you're playing a flat 5th or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance.

As a musician you have to keep one foot back in the past and have one foot forward into the future.

I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.

Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that.

It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.

One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.

You can't steal a gift. Bird [Charlie Parker] gave the world his music, and if you can hear it you can have it.

I try to play the bare essence, to let everything be just what it's supposed to be.

The sign of a mature musician is knowing what not to play.

There have been two great revelations in my life: The first was bepop, the second was homeopathy.

Where there's no mutual respect, there's trouble!

If you really want to learn, do not be surprised if someone tries to teach you. And do not lightly reject the method.

In order to have success we have to make an effort and this demands persistent, diligent hard work

The Shoes Should fit! you can't build a business that is not yours.

We betray our modern arrogance and forget the place of mystery in God's dealing with us.

Life is like coffee, the darker it gets, the more it energizes.

Nothing is more important in our national life than the welfare of our children.

It is always more difficult to fight one's own failings than the power of an adversary.

The mastery of the true self, and the refusal to permit others to dominate us, is the ultimate in living and self-expression in athletics.

I have no interest in being wrong, so if I am, please correct me. I don't want to be wrong. There's nothing in it for you or for me to be wrong.

What two ideas are more inseparable than beer and Britannia?