Trumpets! Can you bring your... uh... extracurricular tubing necessities next rehearsal?

Music is the only thing keeping the planet together

Music is in the air; it's my job to pull it out.

A chimpanzee could learn what I do physically, but it goes way beyond that. When you play, you play life.

The secret to the sound is to drop the bass on the floor!

All you've got to do is keep your ears open.

I'm not a star. I'm just backing up the cats.

Women and rhythm-section first!?

I took the frets out of my bass after I was getting into jazz a lot and I wanted to have that upright sound.

Your eyes see me in ways the mirror never could.

"The Dream of a Common Language" by Adrienne Rich. I carried it the entire hike. On my first night, when I felt like I was in too deep, I read the first poem out loud to myself over and over.

Now I look back and think if I'd spent more time enjoying myself instead of crying into my pillow over men, my 20s would have been fabulous!

I must show no fear, no weakness, no doubt.

Goodie-goodies are the thieves of virtue.

Praise leads to weakness. Getting it causes fear, losing it causes fear.

[JF] Kennedy was a deceitful man. He was a cold-blooded politician whose purpose was to get elected.

Britney [Spears]'s actually kind of like a broken-down shell of a human being, that's what makes her so endearing and compelling.

If God was small enough for you to completely understand him, he wouldn't be big enough for you to completely trust him.

In many ways, the idea of resilience is a more useful concept than the idea of sustainability.