Je plie, et ne romps pas. I bend but do not break.
Amsterdam must have more than a million people. But the only area where jazz is really profitable and successful in an economic sense is in Japan. That's because they haven't been exposed enough.
If I were to put on Barbra Streisand and Duke Ellington, one might say the combination isn't good.
I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan.
When I was doing jazz concerts in America, I would use the biggest names I could find.
Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks.
Sponsors and networks will really go all out and simply evaluate people on the basis of talent.
It's easy to be a backseat driver. It's even easier to be a backseat driver when you're not even in the same car.
At halftime [of Game 7], one of our oldest guys on the team, James Jones, came to me, and he's like, "Man, it's time for you to do something. You've been sleeping the whole playoffs, the whole final series. " First couple of shots I got coming out, I was like, "You know what, I'm gonna shoot it. " Fortunately they fell, and we started making our way back.
Make me wanna kill myself, but I see death around the corner.
Only married people understand you can be miserable and happy at the same time.