We all have to open our minds, stretch forth, take chances and venture out musically to try and arrive at something new and different.

Jazz is not background music. You must concentrate in order to get the most out of it. You must absorb it.

I will search for hidden talents that I didn't know I had and do my best to cultivate them. I am grateful for each day, and I will try to use each day as a stepping stone to greater achievements.

Musical composition should bring happiness and joy to people and make them forget their troubles.

Jazz is not background music.

Basically my influences have been American influences. It's been blues, gospel, swing era music, bebop music, Broadway show music, classical music.

The ensemble playing is as clean as a whistle. The band plays in tune and with dynamics. Also, there is some fine arranging and orchestrating going on here, and the soloists perform at top level.

I personally do not believe in politics, hatred, or anger in my musical composition.

People fear not because they are powerless, but because they ignore their inner power

You may marry the man of your dreams ladies but fourteen years later you're married to a couch that burps.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

You can go on like this for a very long time, and no one will notice. You keep thinking you're going to hit some sort of bottom, but I'm here to tell you: There is no bottom.

It's been years since any hillbilly has reported getting sodomized by an alien. Did they break up and not tell us?

Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.

You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating, just the same.

Don't mess with the bull, young man. You'll get the horns.

I love action films. It's my favorite genre.

Allow not nature more than nature needs.