You can have a great lyric and a so-so melody; it's going to be a tough sell.

Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived.

We always felt that if you do something with quality and integrity, then it's going to come back to you.

Instrumental music can spread the international language.

I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico... not so much the music, but the spirit.

I like to listed to the adventurous guys - the Coltranes, Miles Davis, the guys who just let it loose.

I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.

I think we as human beings need to be able to appreciate each other's differences and I think jazz really takes us in that direction.

I'm seduced by the arts in general. Arts is like the power of now.

There's something interesting about playing live; you're in the moment, and I think it would be beneficial.

I play every day. It's like a habit for me now. I just, if I don't play, I kind of miss - something's off.

Character is fate. Every day is training day.

O how quickly passes away the glory of the earth.

May our nation continue to be the beakon of hope to the world.

I certainly knew my father. He just didn't happen to be my biological father.

Anger can be a wonderful wake up call to help you understand what you need and what you value.

I think every director's different. Every director's got his own style. I mean, when I directed, I basically just screamed for eight hours a day, twelve hours a day.

Every time you tell someone that you are going to fly and they talk about gravity, that is doubt.

It was necessary to have an even depth of corn on the top compared to the sides, so the air would not take the easiest route and not evenly dry the stored corn.

I am dismayed to realize that much of the advice I used to parcel out to aspiring writers has passed its sell-by date.

I am not very moved by historical apologies.