Wynton Marsalis is jazzy the same way someone who drives a BMW is sporty.

The way I think about the practicing, it is my undercover work.

If you already have a piece of music ingrained in your body, why would you not play it?

If music is sound & came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound.

Creativity is what makes humanity move. We were created to participate.

I cannot say what I think is right about Music. I only know the rightness of it.

Ideally, I'd like to be the eternal novice, for then only the surprises would be endless.

I believe that a truly valuable artist must be an artist who realizes the impossibility of his task -and then continues to do it.

One thing you learn: if you want to reveal yourself, you also have to know where to stop.

Silence is the potential from which music can arise.

Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader

A rich and mature life involves opening up to a wider world. If we base our understanding of life only on what we personally experience, we are impoverished indeed.

Strange, how in all those apocalyptic movies, when their society breaks down into lawlessness and anarchy, Canada is always the haven of safety, the place people want to escape to.

Each individual member of a co-operative society works with that interest which is inseparable from the new position he enjoys. Each has an interest in the other.

You can't have a laugh track that sort of tells the audience when to laugh and, you know, it's difficult to find those moments.

By the time I was ten or eleven, I had a song-book and I was writing everything down. It used to just be my hobby but now it's like my diary, it's where I can go in my own little bubble.

Confidence is something one acquires. It can come early or late but it is impossible to write without it. Mine came late.

When I'm laid in my coffin, I want you to put a picture of my grandchild to the right of me and and a picture of my daughter to my left. That way they will be buried with me.

Nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study household good, And good works in her husband to promote.

We, the American people, clearly see the daunting forces we will undoubtedly face: terrorists, crime, drug gangs, the possibility of Euro-style debt riots, civil unrest or natural disaster.