Jazz has the power to make men forget their differences and come together... Jazz is the personification of transforming overwhelmingly negative circumstances into freedom, friendship, hope, and dignity.

Prince.. a true artist in every sense of the world.Gone way too soon.

A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top of that, you're really in great shape!

A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.

I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, "Ain't that the truth."

To me it's no accident that all the symphony orchestras around the world tune up to the note A. And A is 440 cycles, except in Germany where it's 444. But the universe is 450 cycles. So what I'm trying to say is, I think it's God's voice, melody especially. Counterpoint, retrograde inversion, harmony... that's the science and the craft.

My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.