The only authority I respect is the one that causes butterflies to fly south in fall and north in springtime.
You can't be without passion. Passion means the possessiveness to be the best.
If music wakes you up, makes you think, heals you. . . then, I guess the music is working.
Your best success comes after your greatest disapponitment
Music is something that takes you to a world which is very different from the world of hatred,jealousy, and all those negative emotions
Success comes to those who dedicate everything to their passion in life. To be successful, it is also very important to be humble and never let fame or money travel to your head.
All my life I have had a choice of hate and love. I chose love and I am here
I like the life of ideas and applying ideas to action.
I'm going to end a life that I thought could contain every kind of greatness but that in fact consisted only of my incapacity to really want to be great. Whenever I arrived at a certainty, I remembered that those with the greatest certainties are lunatics.
You will never know what the meaning of Jazz is if ask what it means.
His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.