You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.

Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.

I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.

Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me.

Let's not get too full of ourselves. Let's leave space for God to come into the room.

You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff

I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you're supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.

Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.

The process is the most beautiful part.

I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, "Ain't that the truth."

The only music I don't like is bad music.

I earn the magic of words by writing.I learn the myth of worlds by imagining.

30. If Will stops and cries Why, invoking Because, then Will stops an does naught. 31. If power asks why, then power is weakness.

What do I think of the reverse sweep? It's like Manchester United getting a penalty and Bryan Robson taking it with his head

One of my weaknesses happens to be lying, and I could tell you that I'm never going to lie again in my life, but that would be a lie.

Reign, and keep life in this our deep desireOur only greatness is that we aspire.

Treat everybody the same way you want to be treated

I'm from the Mississippi delta originally.

No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.

Poetry is designed to inspire love, and islam is about falling in love with the creator of the universe.

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.