Kinship doesn't come from skin color. It's in your soul and your mind.

Your mother’s heartbeat is the first sound you ever hear and your own heartbeat is the last.

Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed to represent freedom, democracy and the United States.

Kinship doesn't come from skin color. It's in your soul and your mind.

Many people don't understand how disciplined you have to be to play jazz... And that is really the idea of democracy - freedom within the Constitution or discipline. You don't just get out there and do anything you want.

We don't know the power that's within our own bodies

I’m beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.