I am often asked how I got into the business. I didn't. The business got into me..
Women are the life force we look at for their beauty..
Music is the greatest communication in the world..
Finally Beiderbecke came out with a silver cornet. He put it to his lips and blew a phrase. The sound came out like a girl saying 'yes'..
Everything that is not me is incomprehensible..
Put it this way: Jazz is a good barometer of freedom... In its beginnings, the United States of America spawned certain ideals of freedom and indepen….
I don't really consider myself to be famous..
You can come back to friendship. You can let it drop, for five years or ten years, and come back to it..
As Americans, we do love punishment..
I am doing what I love to do..
Now I have to motivate myself much more than I had previously..
Never be shamed of being Afrikan.
I had been to São Paulo the year before and became pretty well acquainted with the music of composer Antonio Carlos Jobim, I had already started play….
The guitar is a means of expressing music, When you get into the emotional side of it, then it's not the guitar that matters so much as the music its….
Everybody is entertained to death..
I watched a lot of movies. I was deeply influenced by movies..
I've concluded that I learned far more from my failures than from my successes..
I feel that movies are gifts that come to you, and there are no accidents in what you end up doing..
When your feeling down, do you know you can change it, like that. Put on a beautiful piece of music, start singing, that will change your emotion - o….
As long as you've got your horn in your mouth, you're developing..
Ninety-five percent of my audience was white..