Music washes away the dust of every day life.

Jazz washes away the dust of every day life.

A name doesn't make the music. It's just called that to differentiate it from other types of music.

Music is supposed to wash away the dust of everyday life

So go on and play, and if you make a mistake, make it loud so you won't make it next time.

Jazz, I mean, music will always move, because it can't become stagnant. Because if it becomes stagnant, it's like a river, it'll kill us all. It has to keep moving, music will always flow.

It takes an intelligent ear to listen to Jazz.

If you feel like tapping your feet, tap your feet.

That.s what Jazz music is all about.We started the Messengers because somebody had to mind the store for jazz.No America--no Jazz. It is the only culture that America has brought forth.

All you have to do is be able to feel.

They say that Jazz is back, and I don't think it's gone anywhere. But they say it's back.

When there is silence one finds the anchor of the universe within oneself

An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done 'heard' bout you just what they hope done happened.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks on great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.

Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure.

I paint digitally now. A pity, in some ways, as the biggest price one pays is that you no longer have a finished piece of physical art to hang on a wall. I miss that terribly.

This is the wonderful thing about the pure in heart--they do see God.

The market is not a place, a thing, or a collective entity. The market is a process, actuated by the interplay of the actions of the various individuals cooperating under the division of labor.

I think black people have to be in control of their own image because film is a powerful medium. We can't just sit back and let other people define our existence.

You need fear to create, to live.