I always figured I'd still be playing at this age.

Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.

Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God.

Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.

Man, as long as people want to hear Jazz, I'll give it to them.

All art is communication of the artists' ideas, sounds, thoughts; without that no one will support the artist.

Every day I look forward to getting with my instruments, trying new things.

I'm motivated. The spirit hits me and I just keep going and don't stop. The more I play, the more I can invent, the more ideas come to me.

It's always Jazz. You can put a new dress on her, a new hat, but no matter what kind of clothes she's the same old broad.

Playing gives me as much good feeling now as it did when I was a bitty kid.

Music was our wife and we loved her. We stayed with her, clothed her and put diamond rings on her hands.

A lover becomes a light when he or she enlightens world of someone.

They're sharing a drink called loneliness, but at least its better than drinking alone.

There is never a problem child; there is only a problem parent

To those who voted for me, thank you. And to those who didn't, better luck next year!

If you are to love mankind, you must not expect too much from it.

A woman who does not know herself has no choice other than to live with other people’s evaluations. But no one can adapt perfectly to public opinion. And herein lies the source of their destruction.

Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader.

The only thing that gets me back to directing is good scripts.

Most of my ideas belonged to other people who never bothered to develop them.

Windows are the eyes of the soulless