When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition.

I hope we left you with something to put under your pillows.

Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people.

Jazz is a beautiful word. I love it.

What I'm doing, I prefer to call that jazz, because it is a beautiful word - I love it.

Bebop is the music of the future (as soon as they learn how to play it).

In nuclear war, all men are cremated equal.

Jazz is an octopus. It will take whatever it can use and it will work with it.

If you can't play the Blues you might as well hang it up.

Music is a reservoir... of sounds.

To have a little recognition, that is very nice, you dig. It is good for the ego, for the psyche.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

The key to understanding if something is truly precious is to ask if we can hold it, for things truly precious cannot be held.

The strength of a man consists in finding out the way in which God is going and going in that way too.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

Once you base your whole life striving on a desperate lie, and try to implement that lie, you instrument your own undoing.

The drug culture has shaped at least one major change since the Sixties; It became the basis for overloading our prisons.

The world is rid of Lord Byron, but the deadly slime of his touch still remains.

I have a great deal of difficulty with those who live in a hugely prosperous country telling people in the developing world that they should be deprived of a critical source of energy.

But if you're doing something, show up everyday, and something good might happen - it's not going to happen if you don't show up.