An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself.

'Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a 'swing band' in music.

If you don’t see the wonder in the most ordinary phenomenon, you’re not going to resonate very much.

If you wanna dance, a windshield wiper'll do it-all you need is a beat.

I did all you can do with a clarinet. Any more would have been less.

Jazz was born out of the whiskey bottle, was raised on marijiana, and will expire on cocaine.

You have no idea of the women I didn't marry.

An audience is in many respects no more than a mob under loose control.

The good old days are neither better nor worse than the ones we're living through right now.

Somebody asked me once, 'Do you think that swing will ever come back?' And I said, 'Do you think the 1938 Ford will ever come back?'

An artist should write for himself & not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away.

I'm the wave pushed by the wind, always receding before reaching the shore.

Why we are hanging around with inequality concept every day, it is like comparing water with the bread.

Keep your head up and smile, because someone somewhere wants to see you fail.

You and I have been physically given two hands and two legs and half-decent brains. Some people have not been born like that for a reason. The karma is working from another lifetime.

Did you know Richard Nixon is the only president whose formal portrait was painted by a police sketch artist?

Heaven's full of astronauts and the Lord's on death row.

I'm not good with limitations. I tend to like to find my own.

I have a brother who is afraid to go to sleep, he dreams he's working.

Having set one's family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.

The night before the Nobel announcement every year, I've gone to bed feeling quite anxious. I was optimistic, and also I knew it might never happen.