I started off with the really funky stuff like Ramsey Lewis, Milt Jackson, Kenny Burrell.
The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.
Music is the balm that heals the forlorn ache of a distant star.
Lessons that come easy are not lessons at all. They are gracious acts of luck. Yet lessons learned the hard way are lessons never forgotten.
You're my bread when I'm hungry You're my shelter from troubled winds You're my anchor in life's ocean Most of all You're my best friend
I don't believe that heaven waits for only those who congregate.
When the sparrow sings its final refrain, the hush is felt nowhere more deeply than in the heart of man.
That in these times every serious person should not in his heart have felt some difliculty with the doctrines of the incarnation, I cannot helieve. We are not as we were. When Christianity was first published, the imagination of mankind presented the relation of heaven to earth very differently from what it does now.
The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly.
Thought is cause: experience is effect. If you don't like the effects in your life, you have to change the nature of your thinking.
My career has been a gradual climb. I think that's part of the reason why I've had longevity.