Your looks are laughable, unphotographable, yet you're my favorite work of art. Is your figure less than Greek, is your mouth a little weak? When you open it to speak, are you smart?

I'm definitely a romantic, I don't think life is really worth all the pain and effort and struggling if you don't have somebody that you love very much

You don't know what love is, until you've learned the meaning of the blues, until you've loved a love you've had to lose.

I don't believe that jazz will ever really die. It's a nice way to express yourself.

It seems to me that most people are impressed with just three things: how fast you can play, how high you can play, and how loud you can play.

I soon became aware that there wasn't enough time or opportunity to kiss all the girls in the world. The best thing is to stay cool - just be choosy and wait for the right opportunity.

In Europe they look upon jazz as art. In America it's a diversion. Somebody opens a restaurant and installs another band off to the side. People don't listen.

Well if I could play like Wynton, I wouldn't play like Wynton.

It takes a pretty good drummer to be better than no drummer at all.

The drummer; he inspired me to play like no one else I have ever met.

Artt Frank is my all-time favorite drummer. He always seems to know where I'm going.

Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.

Talk about a dream, try to make it real. You wake up in the night with a fear so real. Spend your life waiting for a moment that just don’t come. Well don’t waste your time waiting.

Basically, it's just fatigue, ... I've run out of gas a little bit. I've played a lot this summer, and the body's just telling me I'm fatigued.

So let's start at the very begining (a very good place to start...)

Some studies have shown that natural gas could, in fact, be worse for the climate than coal.

There is no security in life, only opportunity.

Tell him I took the cat

I was never shielded from the realities of what it meant to be an artist and that made me afraid to be an artist because I wanted to know that my life was secure.