Many people forget that Jazz, no matter what form it takes, must come from the heart as well as the mind.

One way and another I was having a ball - playing gigs, jamming and listening to fine musicians. Then came a crisis at home. My stepfather fell sick, and it meant I had to support the family.

I wonder what an agent would do if he had to travel with the band he's booking.

It's not what you play, it's how you play it.

Anything you are shows up in your music - jazz is whatever you are, playing yourself, being yourself, letting your thoughts come through.

If you work on your talent, the plans will fall in automatically.

I have been tied up with music for about as long as I can remember. By the time I was four I was picking out little tunes my mother played on the reed organ in the living-room.

Within a few hours I had them off, was about ready to play the shows. That night I opened, and during the week Harris was over to the house to talk my mother into letting me leave home.

Never allow people without vision to cloud your own.

Always be more than you appear and never appear to be more than you are.

Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.

I always stood for the elimination of conflict and wars, and any of those causes that ignite them.

We lose weeks like buttons, like pencils.

Try to do exactly as you are taught without complaining or quibbling.

While I drew, and wept along with the terrified children I was drawing, I really felt the burden I am bearing. I felt that I have no right to withdraw from the responsibility of being an advocate.

Falsehoods border on truths.

I think your travels get better when you stop showcasing your journey to others and begin to live it, quietly and joyfully.

You talk one way, you live another.