Now as jazz musicians we're saying for this society, you can free up your imagination. You can proceed in an area without much information and you can function in an area without much information.

I think all record companies should be run by a musician. Just as you wouldn't trust your health to an electrician.

I think we've all had enough of Coltrane saxophonists. There's a case of someone ruining a generation of saxophonists, as Louis Armstrong may have ruined a generation of trumpeters.

Adam Berenson knows how to compose, organize an ensemble, do musical research, play solo and trio piano, write for musical journals, and enlist others to his cause. A very fine musician.

life is either a reproducible, almost commonplace manifestation of matter, given certain conditions, or a miracle. Too many steps are involved to allow for something in between.

The benefit of carrying the entire world on your shoulders was that you didn’t have to stare it in the face.

What are memories but photo images from the mind? Isn't the human mind so much like a camera, saving pictures every now and then?

I always wondered. If…” Her mouth was on autopilot.“If what, Ella?”“If I crossed your mind wherever you were.”“You don’t cross my mind, Ella. You live in it.” He tugged her closer to him.

Whatever this fearlessness, this strength, this difference was, she was starting to like it.

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.

[ Hillary Clinton] is the one who has a terrible temperament.

The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.

If you're good at something, never do it for free.

For two centuries, the South has feared a takeover by blacks or the feds. In Obama, they have both.