Your self-image is as ephemeral as the play of light dancing on the surface of the water.
I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about Jazz.
My first relationship to any kind of musical situation is as a listener.
One very fundamental thing has not changed and I realized that it will never change. . . is that I really need to go home and practice.
Listening is the key to everything good in music.
Learning to play is mostly about learning to hear, and learning to really listen deeply to sound in a musical way is a lifetime's worth of work.
People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a Jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.
I praise CBS for taking a risk, which is always the price you pay for opportunity. This is not standard movie of the week storytelling. I think movies of the week have fallen into a niche and that isn't my niche
Life is not all fun and easy going. Far from it; there are many rough times. But, sadly, we too often let the hard times dull our enthusiasm. And that is dangerous, if not fatal, to our lives.
I wonder how many eggs are in the golden goose?
It is contrary to the principles of reason and justice that any should be compelled to contribute to the maintenance of a church with which their consciences will not permit them to join, and from which they can derive no benefit; for remedy whereof, and that equal liberty as well religious as civil, may be universally extended to all the good people of this commonwealth.