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.

There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.

Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don't want it.

There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.

Every man prays in his own language.

Playing 'bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.