Well, being a jazz musician is not a rose garden!

The harmonica is a great instrument.

You can be in Tokyo or Alberta at four in the morning in your hotel and you can still practice if you feel like it. A trombone cannot do that at four in the morning.

Jazz is very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians playing Jazz music.

My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my cradle, I already was imitating the gestures of the musician.

And if I have a strong point, it's that I like to believe it's not cheap or schmaltzy sentimentality.

My father bought me a little cardboard accordion, and when I was three I got this little machine.

You can’t enjoy art or books in a hurry.

There are some secrets so toxic you can’t share. Especially if you love who it is you’d have to share with.

A Soviet diplomat, like a skilled chess player, does not expect his opposite number to give up something for nothing, not even a pawn.

I'm a middle child, and I'm pretty diplomatic: the peace-maker.

I've always felt from everyone I talk to that the fans feel like I'm tangible and they can talk to me and they know me.

I wanted a fake wedding in Jamaica.

Be able to set a table so that you feel like you're dining, not just sitting and eating.

Life is too short to sleep it all away!

I love this world because it is imperfect. It is imperfect, and that's why it is growing; if it was perfect it would have been dead.

It is a retarding element creating hatred and anger, and causing people to fight each other, and making them unsympathetic.