We have something that is unique. We have our craft. We have our art. We have our desire.

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.

We are who we are, be­cause of those we choose to love and be­cause of those who love us.

People say love isn’t supposed to be painful. But maybe the best things in life are the ones that hurt the most after they’re gone.

...there is still a need for those of us nestled deep within the Christian bubble to look beyond the status quo and critically assess the degree to which we are really living biblically.

I didn't play a great deal of sport in primary school. It was not until I went away to boarding school in Sussex that I really got into sport.

Education has for its object the formation of character.

There was one time I wrestled two boys and I beat them both! They weighed a lot less than I did and I think they didn't want to hurt a girl, so I don't know if I really won - I'd like to think I did.

I'm not a people person. I'm not sociable. I have been and I can be, but not as a general rule.

Any good practical philosophy must start out with the recognition of our having a body.

I am the first Egyptian civilian president elected democratically, freely, following a great, peaceful revolution.

The first time I walked into a library, I got so excited I almost wet my pants.