Death ain't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner.
I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.
The only way to overcome sadness is to consume it.
It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about my life at all.
It's the tragedy of loving, you can't love anything more than something you miss.
It's nice being offered a lot of interesting films and being asked to take part in things that are quite curious. If you hunt and keep looking, there are some wonderful things that come out.
Truth is something you stumble into when you think you're going someplace else.
It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a lot of people too. My first album was with Benny Carter.
Sometimes very small children in a proper environment develop a skill and exactness in their work that can only surprise us.