I knew this feeling, the 2 a. m. loneliness that I'd practically invented.
The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.
You will attract to yourself people who harmonize with your own philosophy of life, whether you wish it or not.
You will never be greater than the thoughts that dominate your mind
Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.
The starting point of all achievement is desire.
You had many jazz musicians who lived in the United States, who had a hard time being accepted over here and had to play in sort of these inferior type dives.
I think there's nothing worse than inertia. You can inert and study your navel and gradually you'll fall off the chair. I think the key is to keep flying.
The idle wife ranked with the ornamentally wrought weapon and with the splendid offering to the gods as a measure of the man's power to waste, and therefore his superiority over other men. . . . As is the case with any other object of art, her uselessness is her use.
Since I started playing, really, since I was like three. I imagined myself famous but the vision was blurry, I guess. What you see on TV isn't a realistic picture.