Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people.

When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition.

I hope we left you with something to put under your pillows.

Jazz is a beautiful word. I love it.

What I'm doing, I prefer to call that jazz, because it is a beautiful word - I love it.

Bebop is the music of the future (as soon as they learn how to play it).

In nuclear war, all men are cremated equal.

Jazz is an octopus. It will take whatever it can use and it will work with it.

If you can't play the Blues you might as well hang it up.

Music is a reservoir... of sounds.

To have a little recognition, that is very nice, you dig. It is good for the ego, for the psyche.

Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either.

Live a life of faith, hope and love.

Trees are metaphorical. Their magic is that they bring beauty, comfort, and peace to the land. They celebrate life itself.

What are you doing?" Nothing. Breaking and entering. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

If you have life, you have purpose. It can't be otherwise.

I retired from rugby because I was old and getting really slow.

Some of you will stay with me forever, but some of you ... WILL BETRAY ME.

The penguin doesn't know it's cute, and the leopard seal doesn't know it's kind of big and monstrous. This is just the food chain unfolding.

Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.

America has begun her career at the culminating point of life, as Adam did at the age of thirty.