Instrumental music can spread the international language.

Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived.

We always felt that if you do something with quality and integrity, then it's going to come back to you.

I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico... not so much the music, but the spirit.

I like to listed to the adventurous guys - the Coltranes, Miles Davis, the guys who just let it loose.

I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.

I think we as human beings need to be able to appreciate each other's differences and I think jazz really takes us in that direction.

I'm seduced by the arts in general. Arts is like the power of now.

There's something interesting about playing live; you're in the moment, and I think it would be beneficial.

I play every day. It's like a habit for me now. I just, if I don't play, I kind of miss - something's off.

I don't think radio is selling records like they used to. They'd hawk the song and hawk the artist and you'd get so excited, you'd stop your car and go into the nearest record store.

In Cosmic Ordering, we put our trust

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.

The people know what the land knows.

We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.

My energy level is very high ... how ambitious it all is depends on lots of different things. But pretty high energy level. I take on a lot of projects at the same time.

I think that ultimately I just have to be myself. You know, I don't do anything that outlandish anyway.

Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.

It's like being at a theme park every time you go to a training session

Was it worse for him, Reynie wondered, to have felt loved and then rejected? Or was it worse to have always felt alone?