[Phil Wood] knew about wine. He knew about food. He knew about art. He knew about classical music. He was interested in things.

You are not a true success unless you are helping others be successful.

Failure is not meant to be final and fatal.... It is meant to refine you to be all that you are meant to be.

Challenges ONLY make you STRONGER!!!

Thoughts are magnetic. What we think about we attract.

I got to perform the [Jaques] Ibert Concertino Da Camera with a brilliant pianist at school named Chunga. I got to perform the [Alexander] Glazunov Concerto in senior year with our school orchestra and the Jewish Grossman orchestra. I won a scholarship from the Goldman band to perform the [Paul] Creston Concerto. Which I never played with them, but they still gave me the money.

If I could have picked two guys on the planet, to have some exposure to at that age, those were the two right guys [Phil Woods and Charles McPherson].