Somebody asked me once, 'Do you think that swing will ever come back?' And I said, 'Do you think the 1938 Ford will ever come back?'

'Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a 'swing band' in music.

If you don’t see the wonder in the most ordinary phenomenon, you’re not going to resonate very much.

If you wanna dance, a windshield wiper'll do it-all you need is a beat.

I did all you can do with a clarinet. Any more would have been less.

Jazz was born out of the whiskey bottle, was raised on marijiana, and will expire on cocaine.

You have no idea of the women I didn't marry.

An audience is in many respects no more than a mob under loose control.

The good old days are neither better nor worse than the ones we're living through right now.

An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself.

An artist should write for himself & not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away.

I don't see, ' I said, 'how people stand being old. Your insides all dry up. When you're young you're so self-reliant. You don't even need much religion.

One of life’s greatest lessons is learning from our own mistakes.

Being in Harry Potter is like being in the Mafia. Once you are in, you are never really out.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.

If all you do is talk crap, I'll just flush the toilet.

How many of you have ever started dating because you were too lazy to commit a suicide?

Almost every person, from childhood, has been touched by the untamed beauty of wildflowers.

It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.

Scold your children, and they will know what is wrong; but correct them with love, and they will know what is right.