I have looked to the Steinway piano since I was three, not only as my ideal choice of an instrument. But, as a responsive and ever reliable friend.

I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I am always seeking.

Many fail to realize this great recording industry was built by so-called jazz artists. And at the other end of the spectrum, a base in European classical music as well.

The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people are gonna say about your life and your work.

Jazz Improvisation means that practice is not as straightforward as it would be when you simply have a score to play.

You've got a big, big problem if you get caught up in what people say. If you're gonna live for what people say, you might as well lay down and forget it. Because it doesn't work that way.

Mr. McVicker instilled self-respect in those of us who were his students, because he respected us regardless of our background.

Imagination allows us to conceive of delightful future possibilities, pick the most amazing one, and pull the present forward to meet it.

Thousands of pastors, Sunday school teachers, and Christian workers are powerless because they do not make the Word the source of their preaching or teaching.

Unless a person actually hates sin, he will continue to practice it.

I was a big sports fan, and I had been closely monitoring Hank Aaron's home run totals since I was a kid playing on the sandlot adjacent to the Foundry and Machine Company in Batavia, Illinois.

The right to reticence seems earned only by having nothing to hide.

I'm a human being, god-dammit. My life has value!

Just because you couldn't do it yesterday doesn't mean you can't do it today.

Knock the 't' off the 'can't.'

Half our virtue arises from our being out of the way of temptation.

...nothing is creepier than a bunch of adults being very quiet.