Wynton Marsalis' skills have grown as fast as his ambition, and he is the most ambitious younger composer in Jazz.

A Romantic ideology that predates rock glorifies the self-destructive artist as someone who's too honest and delicate for this world... It's not an easy job, and its stresses can take their toll.

Artists are perceptive, but they choose to write songs or make movies or paint pictures rather than simply keeping private diaries.

Hearing Marilyn Crispell play solo piano is like monitoring an active volcano. She is one of a very few pianists who rise to the challenge of free jazz.

Baikida Carroll, whose balance of bravada and tenderness, facility and understatement mark him as a player to be reckoned with.

[Loco De Amor is] a euphoric, melodic romp across the hemisphere... A joyful, fun musician's record from a really good guitarist

Success is relative. We shouldn't compare the financial success between a person born into riches and the one born into abject poverty.

She wasn’t religious. She didn’t believe in heaven or hell, only in ghosts, Ouija boards, tables which rapped and little inept voices speaking plaintively of flowers

River is time in water; as it came, still so it flows, yet never is the same.

O Love! thou bane of the most generous souls! Thou doubtful pleasure, and thou certain pain.

Instead of criticizing Masonry, let us than God for one alter where no man is asked to surrender his liberty of thought and become an indistinguishable atom on a mass of sectarian agglomeration.

I don't want to be called a point guard, but I can't stop it.

A lot can change between planning something and actually doing it. But maybe all that really matters is that anything is different at all.

I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam.

In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: 'We've had enough,' 'Our country is drifting,' 'We've lost our way.

TRUTH: When a child believes he must win to be worthy, when young adults define themselves by what they do and not who they are, it is a kind of slavery a slave master would envy.