It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.

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.

Even in death, may you be triumphant

I tried always to do better: saw always a little further. I tried to stretch myself.

Please be a traveler, not a tourist. Try new things, meet new people, and look beyond what's right in front of you. Those are the keys to understanding this amazing world we live in.

If You don't give readers what they want, they'll be mad at you. If you give them what they do want, they'll be even more mad at you.

Heroism--that is the disposition of a man who aspires to a goal compared to which he himself is wholly insignificant. Heroism is the good will to self-destruction.

Forgiving the men who killed my parents and brother was a process, a journey into deeper and deeper prayer.

In short, Clevinger was one of those people with lots of intelligence and no brains, and everyone knew it except those who soon found it out.

As your understanding of life continues to grow, you can walk upon this planet safe and secure, always moving forward toward your greater good.

Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty.