Your sound is you & what you really feel inside.

Well, I'm too old to pimp, and too young to die, so I'm just gonna keep playin'

Imitate, assimilate, and innovate.

I believe that regardless of how many people you've listened to or emulated over the years, your sound is you and what you really feel inside.

Imitate, assimilate & innovate.

Your mind is a positive asset. Use it for positive thoughts.

Count Basie was college, but Duke Ellington was graduate school.

I was very thrilled to witness the workby my ol' buddy Jim Widner whose expertise in the field of jazz education proved invaluable in putting this masterful CD (Yesterdays & Today) together.

You don’t know the sacrifice behind the success!

I am too far away from what I love and my distance is without remedy.

The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.

Bottom line, if people don't say what they believe, those ideas and feelings get lost. If they are lost often enough, those ideas and feelings never return.

China has an almost infinite need for energy, and frankly, the world would be better off if much of that need goes in the direction of wind power.

Take the first chance that you get, because you may never get another one.

I've been working so hard for the past eight years and I'm tired - but I'm also deliciously tired because what a wonderful life I've lived.

The game I play is a very interesting one. It's imagination, in a tight straightjacket.

In terms of myself, I said from the very beginning that I wanted to work in the management of Citigroup and I didn't want to be a CEO, ... That's not what I want to do with myself at the moment.

One of the major goals of health insurance reform is to bring down the cost.