As it enters the ear, does it come in like broken glass, or does it come in like honey?

They flat their fifths, we drink ours.

Ted Lewis could make the clarinet talk. What it said was put me back in the case!

[Louis Armstrong] could play a trumpet like nobody else, then put it down and sing a song like no one else could.

Paul Desmond sounds like a female alcoholic.

For a bad hangover take the juice of two quarts of whisky.

Krupa's drums went through us like a triple bourbon.

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'.

Brubeck, for instance, is not careless. He's a studied guy. And even if his picture ends up on the back cover of Life, he's still a studious guy.

A mn ages hs enemy because he hates his own hate. He says to himself: I hate him not because he's my enemy, not because he hates me, but because he arouses me to hate.

The physical contact with people who struck and trampled and killed one another seemed far worse to him than a solitary death in the purity of the waters.

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.

The past is gone, the future is not here, now I am free of both. Right now, I choose joy.

The light is not quantifiable. You experience it in meditation when thought stops. When you go beyond the limitations of the ego, the light is waiting for you.

I wanted to finish on a stronger note. Fighting through that routine, you know what I was like, 'I'm just fighting through.'

London is my home... I know what's right and wrong here, and it's nice to have somewhere familiar to go back to.

Excess always carries it's own retributions.

I love going to plays. There's a subconscious side to it, obviously-some people like to be spanked for XYZ psychological reasons, and I like to go to plays, and I can't entirely explain why.