To have a little recognition, that is very nice, you dig. It is good for the ego, for the psyche.

When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition.

I hope we left you with something to put under your pillows.

Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people.

Jazz is a beautiful word. I love it.

What I'm doing, I prefer to call that jazz, because it is a beautiful word - I love it.

Bebop is the music of the future (as soon as they learn how to play it).

In nuclear war, all men are cremated equal.

Jazz is an octopus. It will take whatever it can use and it will work with it.

If you can't play the Blues you might as well hang it up.

Music is a reservoir... of sounds.

The full moon symbol on my calendar no longer seemed to be a period marking the end of something, but just another way of counting time.

Inspire greatness in others and it will be easier to inspire greatness in yourself.

Barack Obama's mother-in-law might be moving into the White House with him. Joe Biden was right. Hostile forces will test him in the first few months.

I started writing just to have a creative outlet during the down time.

Our dad made everything competitive for me and brother. It always was a world championship, a national championship, Big 10 championship. It was always at stake in everything we did.

Well, food's always the way to anybody's heart, I think, guy or girl.

In schools where parent involvement is greater, you do have higher achievement levels and better functioning, better performing schools.

The rate of childhood obesity is just ridiculous. Anytime I can get involved with teaching them how to get physical exercise, I want to help in any way possible

Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.