Too many young musicians today want to win polls before they learn their instruments.

One way or the other, if you want to find reasons why you shouldn’t keep on, you’ll find ‘em. The obstacles are all there; there are a million of ‘em.

If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice.

To this day, I don't like people walking on stage not looking good. You have to look good. If you feel special about yourself then you're going to play special.

If you want to do something, you do it anyway, and handle the obstacles as they come.

Creativity grows out of two things: curiosity & imagination.

It takes the black keys and the white keys both, to make perfect harmony.

People have often said to me, 'You're so relaxed when you play.' Relaxed my elbow. It's practice.

Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.

After you’ve done all the work and prepared as much as you can, what the hell, you might as well go out and have a good time.

As soon as it was understood that we could handle things in our own way, it was the thrill of my life to walk out on that stage with people just hemming the band in.

It’s the ‘everyday’ experiences we encounter along the journey to who we wanna be that will define who we are when we get there.

...there is no better time to examine and understand one’s selfhood than when it is dissected and hurtling through darkness.

Don’t argue with [a professor], but test everything he says in the light of God’s Word.

Where ruts have not yet been worn, it requires less effort to stay out of them.

Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music.

The soul, at peace, reflects the peace without, Forgetting grief as sunset skies forget The morning's transient shower.

I herewith commission you to carry out all preparations with regard to... a total solution of the Jewish question in those territories of Europe which are under German influence.

I was 16-years-old when I appeared on 'American Idol,' and the show was my boot camp. It was a crazy, stressful at times, experience.

Only they who fulfill God's commands have a claim on the Lord.

It's time we stopped worrying about losing our looks and started celebrating the gifts of age: I feel yummier than ever.