A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
I don't need time, I need a deadline.
There are two kinds of worries - those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter.
On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine.
By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
It's like an act of murder; you play with intent to commit something.
Critics have their purposes, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what they did.
Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.
The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
People do not retire. They are retired by others.
A man is a god in ruins.
Playing 'bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
