It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.
It wasn't until Duotones that I felt my true voice come out.
I practice my saxophone three hours a day. I'm not saying I'm particularly special, but if you do something three hours a day for forty years, you get pretty good at it.
I really create everything I do from the heart.
I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine.
Maybe the biggest thing that I've learned musically is that anything is possible. Things can work when maybe they don't seem like they can.
What is music anyway? It's a form of communication, and that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.
Gypsies are, to say the least, underrepresented in literature and film.
I like my films to influence the audience. Even if it means tripping their aged grandparents with a cane when they get home.
In the homes of America are born the children of America; and from them go out into American life, American men and women. They go out with the stamp of these homes upon them; and only as these homes are what they should be, will they be what they should be.
People everywhere look to the United States to use its remarkable power to help lift humanity up and to work for the common good.