I believe that regardless of how many people you've listened to or emulated over the years, your sound is you and what you really feel inside.

Well, I'm too old to pimp, and too young to die, so I'm just gonna keep playin'

Imitate, assimilate, and innovate.

Your sound is you & what you really feel inside.

Imitate, assimilate & innovate.

Your mind is a positive asset. Use it for positive thoughts.

Count Basie was college, but Duke Ellington was graduate school.

I was very thrilled to witness the workby my ol' buddy Jim Widner whose expertise in the field of jazz education proved invaluable in putting this masterful CD (Yesterdays & Today) together.

Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are divine.

Bliss is amplified and fortified by being centered during the everyday stuff.

Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.

Up until the end of the Bush Administration, there was indifference to the North Korean suffering under Kim Jong-Il.

If a preacher tells you how God says you are, I don't see how you can say that's bad preaching.

People ask me, 'Why pray if God is sovereign?' I respond, 'Why pray if He isn't?

Old unhealthy thoughts can block off inspiration and motivation. Dropping them releases a strong flow of power through the mind.

Hollywood has treated me well.

Yes, I know and then in the same time period within those nine years I lost 150 pounds.

You cannot predict the future.