The music becomes something that is its own entity.

Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.

The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.

Don't be afraid to expand yourself, to step out of your comfort zone. That's where the joy and the adventure lie.

You would not exist if you did not have something to bring to the table of life.

Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference.

Forget about trying to compete with someone else. Create your own pathway. Create your own new vision.

I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn.

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

The most valuable things in life are priceless. They are courage, compassion, wisdom, respect for ourselves and others, and a host of characteristics that we call the beauty of the human spirit.

Jango danced

A child's a plaything for an hour.

Prometheus heretofore went up to Heaven, and stole fire from thence. Have not I as much Boldness as he?

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Music always sounds better on Friday.

Joao Gilberto on guitar could read a newspaper and sound good.

The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems.

Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing ever wider and richer.

Which one of the three candidates would you want your daughter to marry?

To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.