Many times you never know what's going to happen. You'll play songs that you never thought you were going to play.

Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life.

The way we look at it, everything is a sound.

Play as well as you can all the time, and if you're truthful to your thing, you'll succeed.

We're just beginning to learn the importance of music in our society.

I always tell my students when you're going to be a jazz musician the first thing you've got to do is be a professional musician, and that means you have to feed yourself with the instrument.

A chord is just the name of a sound.

We just can't go and try to turn the clock back, that's not happening anymore. You've got to figure something else out.

The music we play is kind of hard to explain. It's music that we really feel.

It's just about really being sensitive, and trying to play a music that is about music.

We expect the listener to have, like, a movie going on when they hear us. That's what it's all about for us.

I can't worry about everything at once, Elend thought with determination. I just have to trust. Trust in myself and keep going.

It is possible to begin again. It is hard, and we never do it perfectly, but it can be done.

Just live every day like it's your last day and be the best person that you can be.

Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice.

Maybe that's my lot in life as an actor, to be the guy who gets crapped on everywhere he goes. Oh God...

It's the abject smallness of the earth that gets you.

Wars are begun by frightened men.

One should aim, seriously, at disregarding ups and downs; a compliment here, silence there ... the central fact remains stable, which is the fact of my own pleasure in the art.

Radicals can be found in any environment.