Well, I'm too old to pimp, and too young to die, so I'm just gonna keep playin'

Imitate, assimilate, and innovate.

I believe that regardless of how many people you've listened to or emulated over the years, your sound is you and what you really feel inside.

Your sound is you & what you really feel inside.

Imitate, assimilate & innovate.

Your mind is a positive asset. Use it for positive thoughts.

Count Basie was college, but Duke Ellington was graduate school.

I was very thrilled to witness the workby my ol' buddy Jim Widner whose expertise in the field of jazz education proved invaluable in putting this masterful CD (Yesterdays & Today) together.

I don't believe in the word " incurable " I believe to find a cure we need to deconstruct the cause.

I don't need you because I want to save you. I want to save you because I need you to save me.

Jesus comes not for the super-spiritual but for the wobbly and the weak-kneed who know they don’t have it all together, and who are not too proud to accept the handout of amazing grace.

I wish I could put a patent on that thing. That was so straight I had to lean over sideways to see the flag!

A person does not hear sound only through the ears; he hears sound through every pore of his body. It permeates the entire being.

When I was at home, I felt loved and safe. My sisters were always a safe haven for me. I knew they would always play with me and make me feel like I was one of them.

The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.

One thing at a time, is my motto - and just play that thing for all it is worth, even if it's only tto pair and a jack.

Death was past, life not come: so he waited.

[I am against] the Treaty of Rome which entrenches laissez faire as its philosophy and chooses bureaucracy as its administrative method.