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

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

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

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

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

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 am a big believer in marriage.

It's lovely to work with a group of actors who make you laugh and smile.

Forgetfulness is not to be purchased with a wish; and I cannot bestow my esteem on all who desire it, unless they deserve it too.

Nothing needs a war. There is no problem that needs a war to bring it to a resolution.

I remember when I first walked into Mayer's cavernous office. You had to walk 50 yards to get to him, and in that time he could really study everything about you.

When I was in high school, I had binders with pictures of tour buses.

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

The myth of hell represents all the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the infamy of which the heart of man is capable.

He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read. He was my personal mentor.

A caged canary is safe but not free.