Jazz is about being in the moment.

Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.

The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.

Don't be afraid to expand yourself, to step out of your comfort zone. That's where the joy and the adventure lie.

You would not exist if you did not have something to bring to the table of life.

Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference.

Forget about trying to compete with someone else. Create your own pathway. Create your own new vision.

I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn.

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

The most valuable things in life are priceless. They are courage, compassion, wisdom, respect for ourselves and others, and a host of characteristics that we call the beauty of the human spirit.

Slaves were expected to sing as well as to work. A silent slave was not liked, either by masters or overseers.

True transformation only comes from sustainable strategies.

If you don't explain it all to me, I might strangle somebody." Of course, Raphael might like that.

What matters in art is not thinking but making.

November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year.

I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it.

I was being an artist, being sensitive and technical as artists are. I'm sure Leonardo Da Vinci did that. Artists don't always feel the same as others feel about their work.

On December 17, 1984, I had surgery to remove two inches of my left lung due to pneumonia. After two hours of surgery the doctors told my mother I had AIDS.

I had a creative hot streak in the 1940s and since then I’ve been pot boiling.

Theology is the doctrine or teaching of living to God.