If you decide you want to be treated good, and you treat someone else good, or you want to learn something, it's information. It's getting the right, good information.

It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.

Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.

When I have them working together, it's like a beautiful kaleidoscope.

For me, being an innovator doesn't mean being more intelligent, more rich, it's not a word, it's an action.

The idea is more important than the style you're playing in.

You don't have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don't have anything to do with placement. Numbers only have something to do with repetition.

I don't try to please when I play. I try to cure.

Music has many uses and I think the most perfected use that music has is one of a healing quality.

Whatever you do, it's over when you do it - but first you have to do it.

We in the Western world suffer from too many categories and classes; we've forgotten that we all still have diapers on. We've separated music from life.

You want a child because it is a link in the bridge that you are building between the past and the future, a cantilever that holds you, so that you are not alone.

Know that we win the war when we pray in power because prayer is the battle.

When I think of death, I know I have nothing to lose. Living life is only a gain.

When you give to your mate, you give to your children. There is no better way to teach love than to practice love. Kids are much better at watching and emulating than they are at listening.

Even if I should never see a native converted, God may design by my patience and continuance in the Word to encourage future missionaries.

There is nothing left worth preserving in the notions of unseen powers, controlling human destiny, to which obedience and worship are due.

Outstanding beauty, like outstanding gifts of any kind, tends to get in the way of normal emotional development, and thus of that particular success in life which we call happiness.

By the delusions of seeming good the people are often misled to desire their own ruin; and they are frequently influenced by great hopes and brave promises.

You have done it by being yourself. Perhaps that is what being a friend means, after all.

Whose heart the accustom'd sight of death makes hard.