I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.
A beat is a moment in the life a groove.
Through improvisation, jazz teaches you about yourself. And through swing, it teaches you that other people are individuals too. It teaches you how to coordinate with them.
Jazz music is the power of now.
Jazz is democracy in music.
Flexibility is an essential part of Jazz. It's what gives Jazz music the ability to combine with all other types of music and not lose its identity.
Ethics are more important than laws. Which means that the exact note is less important than the feeling of the note.
Let me tell you how the French seduce you. They are the most bloody seductive people on Earth. They are charming, they are well-mannered and they praise and flatter you.
She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.
One could count on one's fingers the number of scientists throughout the world with a general idea of the history and development of their particular science: there is none who is really competent as regards sciences other than his own. As science forms an indivisible whole, one may say that there are no longer, strictly speaking, scientists, but only drudges doing scientific work.
All things of creation are children of the Father and thus brothers of man. . . . God wants us to help animals, if they need help. Every creature in distress has the same right to be protected.