What I'm doing, I prefer to call that jazz, because it is a beautiful word - I love it.

When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition.

I hope we left you with something to put under your pillows.

Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people.

Jazz is a beautiful word. I love it.

Bebop is the music of the future (as soon as they learn how to play it).

In nuclear war, all men are cremated equal.

Jazz is an octopus. It will take whatever it can use and it will work with it.

If you can't play the Blues you might as well hang it up.

Music is a reservoir... of sounds.

To have a little recognition, that is very nice, you dig. It is good for the ego, for the psyche.

You must learn not to rely so heavily on others. Only then will help come when you truly need it.

The most time consuming process in the world is probably "thinking".

Adversity is test of faith.

Hope is the magic carpet that transports us from the present moment into the realm of infinite possibilities.

Great sales people [don't] have the ability to feel sorry for themselves.

There is only one excuse for a speaker's asking the attention of his audience: he must have either truth or entertainment for them.

Whenever I see an autobiography for sale in the book store i just flip to the about the author section. I'm like, "Done, next!"

The story you are afraid to write is usually the one you are meant to tell.

I feel there is an angel in me' she'd say 'whom I am constantly shocking