I don't know if the music moves forward anymore. I haven't heard anything for years - except refinement - coming out of the jazz world.

Once I leave the studio I'm ready to do the next thing. There are records I made that I haven't heard.

I use a lot of double-tonguing [using the tongue to control airflow]; that allows me to play as fast as if I was slurring, but with clean articulation on every note.

The enemies of your enemies are not always your friends, but they can still be useful.

Until you have a son of your own... you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son.

I'm six-foot-five. I'm not going to win the gold medal in figure skating. But I can try, and that's what matters. Trying.

I have a conviction that it's only when you are put at full stretch that you can realise your full potential.

Do everything you can to preserve and protect love so that it endures forever.

**** it, holler them across.

(I am) dealing not with the particular anecdote, but rather with the Spirit of Myth, which is generic to all myths at all times.

Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number- Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many-they are few.

Each moment contains a hundred messages from God.

Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.