Forget about trying to compete with someone else. Create your own pathway. Create your own new vision.

Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.

The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.

Don't be afraid to expand yourself, to step out of your comfort zone. That's where the joy and the adventure lie.

You would not exist if you did not have something to bring to the table of life.

Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference.

I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn.

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

The most valuable things in life are priceless. They are courage, compassion, wisdom, respect for ourselves and others, and a host of characteristics that we call the beauty of the human spirit.

Jazz is about being in the moment.

Who was it had said when you fall in love all the popular songs suddenly seemed to mean something.

The best way to not get your heart broken, is pretending you don't have one.

I'm trying to find someone who doesn't want to be found.""That can be as hard as looking for a shadow.

She was so wound up that she reacted before she thought twice about it and stabbed him. "Damnit" he said between clenched teeth. His fingers tightened around her wrist. "Stop doing that.

But the thing is, a wife is a wife and you can't ditch her like a worn shirt after a life.

How lovely the little river is, with its dark changing wavelets! It seems to me like a living companion while I wander along the bank, and listen to its low, placid voice.

Nationalism is blamed for this century's wars, but nationalism need not mean militarism. And the nation-state has been the laboratory of liberty.

God's not afraid of a mess. He wants to do a cleaning.

Only, as long as we're going insane we may as well go the whole way. A mere shred of sanity is of no value.

Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy.