We all played bad before we played good.

That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.

When you're dealing with music without words, titles are more a means of identification than anything else. What's the point of getting lofty?

One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community.

Pop doesn't really look back. It can't. What makes pop work is simplicity.

You don't know what you like, you like what you know. In order to know what you like, you have to know everything.

What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America.

I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.

A lot of musicians have a tough time hearing what we're doing in a trio format.

I think that if you keep banging at the door all you need is a little foothold, a little tiny foothold, and then the rest will take care of itself.

So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

God is gracious to always give a warning before He sends judgment.

You can't overestimate the need to plan and prepare. In most of the mistakes I've made, there has been this common theme of inadequate planning beforehand. You really can't over-prepare in business!

There is a cunning which we in England call the rning of the cat in the pan.

I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.

Today I have a choice. I can resist reality and suffer pain or peacefully accept what I cannot change.

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.

I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn't interacted with many people my age, and I didn't really have friends. I had a million acquaintances and no friends.

We all have to fight to maintain our unique style and taste in a world that would have us conform.

We were built to fall apart and fall back together.