By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of Jazz.

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.

In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel.

It follows the seasons, beginning each year with the fond expectancy of springtime and ending with the hard facts of autumn.

Write: write letters. Keep journals. Besides your children, there is no surer way of achieving immortality.

There is no communication in this world except between equals.

To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music for the sake of commercial gain.