Let this coming year be better than all the others. Vow to do some of the things you've always wanted to do but couldn't find the time.
In the midst of creating, a person is raised to another level of consciousness.
The bass, no matter what kind of music you're playing, it just enhances the sound and makes everything sound more beautiful and full. When the bass stops, the bottom kind of drops out of everything.
As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something thats never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish.
If you strive to become a good human being with the qualities of generosity, humility and having reverence for life. . . just maybe you'll become a great musician.
The artist is very lucky, because in an art form that's spontaneous like jazz, that's when you really see your true self. And that's why, when I put down my instrument, that's when the challenge starts, because to learn how to be that kind of human being at that level that you are when you're playing - that's the key, that's the hard part.
You have to see your unimportance before you can see your importance and your significance to the world.
President Obama said he is going to use the Gulf disaster to push a new energy bill through Congress. How about using the Gulf disaster to fix the Gulf disaster?
To me, the difference between a good marriage and a great marriage is conviction.
Always maintain the attitude of a student. If you think you've done learning, bitterness sets in, but if you have more to achieve every day, in any arena, that makes each morning's awakening full of potential and cheery portent.
There's enough Ferraris here to eat a plate of spaghetti.