jazz is the expression of America's romantic self, its sensual potency, its lyrical force.
I can elect something I love and absorb myself in it.
I see enormous loves growing immense and finally crushing me.
I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Because history is only an aggregate of personal hostilities, personal prejudices, personal blindness and irrationality, there are times when we have to live against it.