I don't have perfect pitch, but I have relative pitch. I'm glad I don't have perfect pitch because perfect pitch can drive you crazy.

You can't sing about love unless you know about it.

I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don't last.

I'm used to hearing myself. My own voice.

When you're playing music, say for instance, you're playing a part of the band and you're looking at your music, your horn is down into the stand. This way, it's

If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or such, study your craft. Study music.

I'm a firm believer and I think my religion is inside.

I just went to Harvard a little while, because I graduated from Armstrong High School in Washington and then I went up there but I didn't stay that long because I went into show business.

If you want to be a musician, study your craft. Study music.

When Byrd came out of there, he had written a lot things while he was in the hospital.

You know, times change and the elements change along with it. The elements of success. And my son's very successful. He's doing very well. And I have a younger daughter who sings.

There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.

All the great and beneficent operations of Nature are produced by slow and often imperceptible degrees. The work of destruction and devastation only is violent and rapid.

The disastrous feature of our civilization is that it is far more developed materially than spiritually. Its balance is disturbed.

ALGEBRA is a general Method of Computation by certain Signs and Symbols which have been contrived for this Purpose, and found convenient.

I miss L.A. because of the weather. It can change so much in Calgary. You can get a storm one minute, and then the sun will come out and it will be hot.

I don't know how Hollywood sees me.

I urge you to be bold. Life isn't changed from the balcony. Get onto the floor and dance, dance, dance.

I've always hated narrative songs. I hate those songs where, basically, it's an unfolding of a story.

The miracle of Christmas is not on 34th street; it's in Bethlehem.

She thinks I’m a drug dealer. (Chris) ‘The most “illegal” thing the boy had ever done was to walk past a Salvation Army Santa Claus, once, without dropping money into the kettle.’ (Wulf)