Intellectual isolation always follows commercial isolation.

I am nothing! If you could know the dream of what I would like to be, you would realize how little I have accomplished.

When I miss a week in practice, my audience knows it. When I miss a day, I know it.

Rhythm is the pulse of music.

America, the country of my heart, my second home.

Music is the only art that actually lives.

I owe my sucess in one per cent to my talent, in ten per cent to luck, and in ninety per cent to hard word. Work, work, and more work is the secret to success.