The trouble with this country is that everything is new. We don't have any consideration for the past... Just because something is old, you don't jus….

Don't screech like that. You'll wake the dead..

I have a responsibility to pass on to the next generation what I learned from my teachers, ... It keeps me young and reminds me where I came from. Te….

You can play a shoestring if you're sincere..

Women complicate everything..

It is through others that we become ourselves..

No one's ever gotten better by practicing less..

A marriage can go wrong at any time..

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known..

Our work is to preach the gospel and we must not be sidetracked..

Music is only understood when one goes away singing it and only loved when one falls asleep with it in one's head, and finds it still there on waking….

If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art..

I'm a very conceptual writer..

If you become a star known for one thing, that becomes your thing, and you don't want that, on some DNA level..

I'd rather buy something that is relatively depressed than something that is relatively high..

We all have to open our minds, stretch forth, take chances and venture out musically to try and arrive at something new and different..

I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse..

You have to take everything as it comes..

It's OK to not be OK - just don't stay there..

Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people..

I'd rather work to live than live to work..