It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo.

It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo. You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.

I'm a musician and, just as the critics are hard on me, I'm hard on the critics.

If you have something to say of any worth then people will listen to you.

I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.

I don't do something because I think it will sell 30 million albums. I couldn't care less. If it sells one, it sells one.

We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour.

He's not a performer, he's not a composer, he's not even a musician, but Norman Granz is Mr. Jazz.

First of all, I swore it was two people playing. When I finally admitted to myself that was one man, I gave up the piano for a month. I figured it was hopeless to practice.

I despair about the lack of proper respect shown for the piano. If you want it to sound like a traffic jam, go out in the street and forget the piano. That's not a piano sound.

I am the worlds laziest writer.

If birth is a manifestation of life, death is another.

Opportunity will not only knock on the door when you are ready, it will stand just next to the door to open it.

Rather than words comes the thought of high windows:The sun-comprehending glass, And beyond it, the deep blue air, that showsNothing, and is nowhere, and is endless.

There is a sacred solution for every situation.

How many times have you been called an abomination?” he whispers. “A monster? Worthle

J.P. Morgan learned to fish in troubled waters.

The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well-off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery almost without noticing them.

Don't cook. Don't clean. No man will ever make love to a woman because she waxed the linoleum.

We weren't impatient. We just weren't moving.

Harriet Tubman fought American slavery single handed and was a pioneer in that organized effort known as the Underground Railroad.