The drummer; he inspired me to play like no one else I have ever met.

I'm definitely a romantic, I don't think life is really worth all the pain and effort and struggling if you don't have somebody that you love very much

You don't know what love is, until you've learned the meaning of the blues, until you've loved a love you've had to lose.

I don't believe that jazz will ever really die. It's a nice way to express yourself.

It seems to me that most people are impressed with just three things: how fast you can play, how high you can play, and how loud you can play.

Your looks are laughable, unphotographable, yet you're my favorite work of art. Is your figure less than Greek, is your mouth a little weak? When you open it to speak, are you smart?

I soon became aware that there wasn't enough time or opportunity to kiss all the girls in the world. The best thing is to stay cool - just be choosy and wait for the right opportunity.

In Europe they look upon jazz as art. In America it's a diversion. Somebody opens a restaurant and installs another band off to the side. People don't listen.

Well if I could play like Wynton, I wouldn't play like Wynton.

It takes a pretty good drummer to be better than no drummer at all.

Artt Frank is my all-time favorite drummer. He always seems to know where I'm going.

Most people like to talk about themselves, so get them going and you’ll make new friends quickly!

Now, on this road trip, my mind seemed to uncrinkle, to breathe, to present to itself a cure for a disease it had not, until now, known it had.

That man would have chipped away at your heart bit by bit until there was nothing left. It may have been bruised, but at least it's whole.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.

In one word, to draw the rule from experience, one must generalize; this is a necessity that imposes itself on the most circumspect observer.

Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.

A Good Samaritan is not simply one whose heart is touched in an immediate act of care and charity, but one who provides a system of sustained care.

Relationship are part of the vast plan for our enlightenment.

God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.