You can't write the same book twice. Though I've been in historical musical situations, I can't go back and do that again. And though I run into artistic crises, they keep my life interesting.

The American drummer is a one-man percussion orchestra.

Jazz is a democratic musical form. We take our respective instruments & collectively create a thing of beauty.

I think that the rhythm sections, drummers in particular, are the unsuing heroes of the music. It's the rhythm section that has changed the styles from one period to the other.

Music mirrors where we should go, have gone and can go. Music is an abstraction.

I always resented the role of a drummer as nothing more than a subservient figure.

Monk encouraged me to emancipate the drums from their subservient role as timekeepers.

They had all this talent, and they had no instruments. So they started rap music. They rhymed on their own. They made their own sounds and their own movements.

The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of their instrument.

Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing of beauty.

The Christian is to take his place in society with moral courage to stand up for that which is right, just, and honorable.

All of us know history repeats itself, but mighty few of us recognize the repetition until too late.

I can't wait to get back to writing today so I can see what happens next Kim Cormack

Juno: WOOOAH! ....Dreeeaaam BIG!

In for ever knowing, we are for ever blessed; but to know all were the curse of a fiend

A little honest swearin' wipeth away anger and bringeth peace to the soul.

I'm seeking to make sense of life, looking for its meaning and how we can have a better humanity.

I get money to kill time/ Dead clocks

The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.