Sarah Vaughan was the Charlie Parker of the vocalists during the 1950s.

What advice do I tell my grandson? I listen to him.

I'm still growing I take each day, one day-at-a-time. I'm always thinking and dreaming. As long as this heart keeps beating, there will be new things coming along.

The fountain of youth with the youthful young musician is one meaning, and the fountain of youth with the youthful energy of the leader is another meaning.

You must own it to play it.

This is my religion. I take long breaks now when I don't perform and I am not myself when I am not performing.

...handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting.

Victoria heard across the wedding reception dance floor "You're loveable"!

A constitutional state is like daily bread, like water to drink and air to breath, and the best thing about democracy is that it is the only system capable of securing the constitutional state.

I don't care what people come at me with. People have come at me with everything you could imagine. I could care less about that.

There is nothing wrong with compromising. Even if you compromise almost everything.

I don't think I would have been a good mother. Being a parent brings immense responsibility. It's a Herculean task. It would be almost too much for me.

I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being.

While I'm gone," Gansey said, pausing, "dream me the world. Something new for every night.

Quality... you know what it is, yet you don't know what it is.