You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it's bad.

Put it this way: Jazz is a good barometer of freedom... In its beginnings, the United States of America spawned certain ideals of freedom and independence through which, eventually, jazz was evolved, and the music is so free that many people say it is the only unhampered, unhindered expression of complete freedom yet produced in this country.

New music? Hell, there's been no new music since Stravinsky.

Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.

Love is indescribable and unconditional. I could tell you a thousand things that it is not, but not one that it is. Either you have it or you haven't; there's no proof of it.

Simplicity is a most complex form

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.