Keep on listening & tapping your feet.

Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues.

Learn to deal with the valleys and the hills will take care of themselves.

It's the way you play that makes it . . . Play like you play. Play like you think, and then you got it, if you're going to get it. And whatever you get, that's you, so that's your story.

If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune.

The real innovators did their innovating by just being themselves.

If you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!

I was always willing to say, "Let's see what happens," when something came up that looked like it might help me get a little closer to where I wanted to be . . .

I think the band can really swing when it swings easy, when it can just play along like you are cutting butter.

All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel ... and that's what I've been doing all my life.

If a guy is gonna to play good bop, he has to have a sort of a bop soul.

Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday.

After all, there was something rather pleasant in knowing that you were misunderstood. It made you feel different from everyone else.

The best things that capture your imagination are ones you hadn't thought of before and that aren't talked about in the news all the time.

Success isn't something you achieve by accident, but rather by design.

Substantively Democrats are much closer to where the American people are than Republicans are.

It's always been a dream of mine to get somewhere and to have my mom and dad with me up there.

The best way to behave is to misbehave.

There are wavelengths that people cannot see, there are sounds that people cannot hear, and maybe computers have thoughts that people cannot think.

Whenever you write, whatever you write, never make the mistake of assuming the audience is any less intelligent than you are.

Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.