Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life.
We can speak our honest minds without compromise and without censorship and to each other and to our people. We can take our message directly to our people.
A band ought to have a sound all of its own. It ought to have a personality.
We didn't come here to set any fashions in music. We merely came to bring a much-needed touch of home to some lads who have been here a couple of years.
By giving the public a rich and full melody, distinctly arranged and well played, all the time creating new tone colors and patterns, I feel we have a better chance of being successful. I want a kick to my band, but I don't want the rhythm to hog the spotlight.
I haven't got a great jazz band and I don't want one. Some of the critics, Down Beat's among them, point their fingers at us and charge us with forsaking real jazz. . . It's all in what you define as 'real jazz. ' It happens that to our ears harmony comes first. A dozen colored bands have a better beat than mine. Our band stresses harmony.
I thought I had swell ideas, and wonderful musicians, but the hell of it, no one else did.
When you are through trying to improve, you are through.
Independence is happiness.
I'm not chasing money, so I'm not looking at just trying to stretch out a deal artificially just to have a certain number.
Trump has learned how to function in a world in which people now live in very separate realities, where they get their news from Facebook recommendations and believe in a particular set of facts. Others, who live in a different reality, know quite a different set of facts.