We have the freedom to either play a tempo or not to play a tempo; to play a note or not to play a note; or to play what some people would say is a sound.

Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life.

The way we look at it, everything is a sound.

Play as well as you can all the time, and if you're truthful to your thing, you'll succeed.

We're just beginning to learn the importance of music in our society.

Many times you never know what's going to happen. You'll play songs that you never thought you were going to play.

I always tell my students when you're going to be a jazz musician the first thing you've got to do is be a professional musician, and that means you have to feed yourself with the instrument.

A chord is just the name of a sound.

We just can't go and try to turn the clock back, that's not happening anymore. You've got to figure something else out.

The music we play is kind of hard to explain. It's music that we really feel.

It's just about really being sensitive, and trying to play a music that is about music.

The power to tax is the power to destroy.

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face, it seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.

I have always worked from that place, that if you are going to inhabit someone and get under their eyes, you need to have empathy.

Oh yeah, gossip. I heard you on the secret wireless. You know the devil's radio child.

You prove but too clearly that seeking to know Is too frequently learning to doubt.

We've caught people watching us, and I'll look at them and I'll go, "It's just us. It's just our thing. It's just what we do."

You could do math early, but there are no brilliant 16-year-old novelists. They don't know the human condition yet.

Doctor Doctor what is wrong with me This supermarket life is getting long What is the heart life of a colour TV What is the shelf life of a teenage queen

I see Santa Claus and Joseph Smith and Luke Skywalker as the same person.