As long as you've got your horn in your mouth, you're developing.

If I can't play music, what am I gonna do? Music keeps people sane. When you enjoy yourself, most of the time the people who are listening to you enjoy it.

If I don't play for a while, it's just like getting hungry.

We were all influenced by Lester [Young]. Listen to the records that he made with [Count] Basie. Nobody's got what he's got. He's still the daddy.

Music keeps people sane.

I just take a tune and play it the only way I can. That's it. I don't really dwell on it very much. Some people probably do. I can only say I play it the way I feel it.

Ninety-five percent of my audience was white.

My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed.

Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.)

She felt lately as though she had served her purpose, done her job, and been dispensed with, not only by her children, but by her husband as well.

People, for reasons of their own, often fail to do things that would be good for them or good for society.

Music, from being an ordered succession of sounds, has become a matter of "sonorities", and anyone who can produce a brightly coloured brick of unusual shape is henceforth hailed as an architect.

The Government have made it clear that the constitutional treaty will be ratified in the UK only after a referendum.

I'm not defined by what people think of me. My happiness comes from within.

The length of a man's outspread arms is equal to his height.

Renunciation is not getting rid of the things of this world, but accepting that they pass away.

I think we shot the ball very well tonight, we just didn't get stops when we needed to. They hit 11 3-pointers in the third quarter. Sometimes when one person gets hot, everybody's hot.

From the errors of other nations, let us learn wisdom.