Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself.

There are 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit Number2- Never forget rule number 1.

Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession, it's a compulsion.

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.

The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.

If you have a great band with a mediocre drummer, you have a mediocre band. If you have a mediocre band with a great drummer, you have a great band!

Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.

You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it's bad.

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.

For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.

To succeed perseverance yells "pain to gain". If you don't take heed, you'll end up slain!

Sometimes you succeed and sometimes you don't.

The love-lorn nightingale nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well.

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

The soul has more diseases than the body.

Stop tolerating in your leaders what you would not tolerate in your friends.

To a worldly man, a God-intoxicated person will appear mad and he will laugh at him, But to the God-intoxicated man, the worldly appear insane, foolish, misled, blind.

I'll hit them when it matters.

There was something very special about Doctor Who, and I did miss it a lot.