You can be in Tokyo or Alberta at four in the morning in your hotel and you can still practice if you feel like it. A trombone cannot do that at four in the morning.

Well, being a jazz musician is not a rose garden!

The harmonica is a great instrument.

Jazz is very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians playing Jazz music.

My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my cradle, I already was imitating the gestures of the musician.

And if I have a strong point, it's that I like to believe it's not cheap or schmaltzy sentimentality.

My father bought me a little cardboard accordion, and when I was three I got this little machine.

Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.

The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.

Forgiveness is accepting someone's faults with love and kindness.

Inspiration is always a surprising visitor.

In the end she just said..... All I did was to run away for a few minutes! All I wanted was to be free!

The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.

I'm not the only person in the world who is suffering. I'm trying to talk to the world, responding to those voices.

Thank God that He has permitted us to live among the present problems. It is no longer permitted to anyone to be mediocre.

Things can change so fast on the internet.

If I had my personal view, perhaps that might take hold. In fact, I don't want to see another dog or cat born.