You would not exist if you did not have something to bring to the table of life.

Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.

The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.

Don't be afraid to expand yourself, to step out of your comfort zone. That's where the joy and the adventure lie.

Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference.

Forget about trying to compete with someone else. Create your own pathway. Create your own new vision.

I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn.

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

The most valuable things in life are priceless. They are courage, compassion, wisdom, respect for ourselves and others, and a host of characteristics that we call the beauty of the human spirit.

Jazz is about being in the moment.

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The time has come. I know you, and now you will know me. Ever Yours.

The serve was invented so that the net could play.

Many of you wavier by the way you live.

I choose what to wear depending on how I feel and what I'm comfortable in. That's when you look your best.

We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.

We've always been ready for female superheroes. Because women want to be them and men want to do them.

Self-consciousness is the destroyer of erotic joy.

I had supported Governor George W. Bush over Senator John McCain in the 2000 Rhode Island presidential primary.

He should be the one to die, part of me thinks. I don't want to lose him, another part argues. I don't know which part to believe.