The harmonica is a great instrument.

Well, being a jazz musician is not a rose garden!

You can be in Tokyo or Alberta at four in the morning in your hotel and you can still practice if you feel like it. A trombone cannot do that at four in the morning.

Jazz is very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians playing Jazz music.

My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my cradle, I already was imitating the gestures of the musician.

And if I have a strong point, it's that I like to believe it's not cheap or schmaltzy sentimentality.

My father bought me a little cardboard accordion, and when I was three I got this little machine.

She had been a solitary child, and then solitary as a woman, drawn into an orbit of her own that took her away from others, even those who would be her friends.

In art the best is good enough.

Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.

The curse of the great is ennui.

If the men in the room would only think how they would feel graduating with a 'spinster of arts' degree they would see how important this is.

We are taking the steps necessary to be ready to send whatever assistance is requested of us, and we are preparing to receive citizens who seek refuge in our state

Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.

It gets better and better being me.

Make it, not make it? What's the difference? Music is a language, it's a dance of life, and it can be a part of your life without being something that earns.

Justice! Custodian of the world! But since the world errs, justice must be custodian of the world's errors.