Nothing's planned. Never say never.
Music was our wife and we loved her. We stayed with her, clothed her and put diamond rings on her hands.
Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.
Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.
All art is communication of the artists' ideas, sounds, thoughts; without that no one will support the artist.
Man, as long as people want to hear Jazz, I'll give it to them.
I'm motivated. The spirit hits me and I just keep going and don't stop. The more I play, the more I can invent, the more ideas come to me.
We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette; it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in men, and coquetry in women.
Everything that happens in our lives is "good information" about the degree to which our choices are working for us. We can, however, choose to believe that we are a victim of the world we see, and have no choices. And, of course, we will receive "good information" about this belief as well.
When I was in Vietnam with Jane Fonda, I was shooting a farmer in a field - just a pastoral scene. And while I was shooting him, an explosion occurred right - he blew up right in my lens, so to speak. And he had stepped on a landmine.
The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I'm willing to show you. In you, it's courage and daring. In me, it's weakness.