He's not a performer, he's not a composer, he's not even a musician, but Norman Granz is Mr. Jazz.

It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo. You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.

I'm a musician and, just as the critics are hard on me, I'm hard on the critics.

If you have something to say of any worth then people will listen to you.

I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.

I don't do something because I think it will sell 30 million albums. I couldn't care less. If it sells one, it sells one.

We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour.

It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo.

First of all, I swore it was two people playing. When I finally admitted to myself that was one man, I gave up the piano for a month. I figured it was hopeless to practice.

I despair about the lack of proper respect shown for the piano. If you want it to sound like a traffic jam, go out in the street and forget the piano. That's not a piano sound.

I am the worlds laziest writer.

Dear girl with the red scarf, Love was never meant to be conquered. You have to surrender to it.Trust me, after all, I am Mr. Universe.

Judged against eternity, how little of what agitates us makes any difference.

By employing the intelligence of natural systems we can create industry, buildings, even regional plans that see nature and commerce not as mutually exclusive but mutually coexisting.

you know you have made a theoretical advance when you can no longer reconstruct why you failed for so long to see the obvious.

My eye is educated to discover anything on the ground, as chestnuts, etc. It is probably wholesomer to look at the ground much than at the heavens.

I read comic books and stuff but I didn't know a lot about it.

Let weak Christians know that a spark from heaven, though kindled under green wood that sobs and smokes, yet it will consume all at last.

Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius.

Inspiration always arrives unannounced.

But sir- we are a beginning democracy. If there were not strikes, this would not be a democracy.