I'm fascinated with the electronic devices that we can mess around with.

What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on.

It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way.

Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.

You can make a saxophone into an electric organ; you can do everything with it

The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine.

So I played alto for quite a while until I saved up the money for the baritone

This life of being a transient human being has gotten to a point when it's very hard to bear

People talk about innovations and evolutions and that kind of thing; I don't understand about that nonsense. It's like, all instruments are there to use all the time

In a way, I started out to be a baritone player.

Eliminating the piano means that I've always worked closer with the bass than most players.

Truly unconditional love was suffocating, in that it took so little notice of who you actually were.

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

Each act of cruelty is eternally a part of the universe; nothing that happens later can make that act good rather than bad, or can confer perfection on the whole of which it is a part.

We all know how the size of sums of money appears to vary in a remarkable way according as they are being paid in or paid out.

James Garner is like a peaceful river through our chaos.

And to Tom Cruise, for if you had won this, your asking price would have gone down so fast. Do you have any idea what supporting actors get paid? We get only one trailer, a small one, in the back.

The key to the future of the world is finding the optimistic stories and letting them be known.

Not everybody believes in ghosts, but I do. Do you know what they are, Trisha? She had shaken her head slowly. Men and women who can't get over their past . . . That's what ghosts are.

Oh Jesus God we did belong to each other. He was mine.

Our greatest national resource is the minds of our children.