I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.

They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.

A person's age can be determined by the degree of pain he experiences when he comes in contact with a new idea.

Young people should travel, and they don’t. You can’t know if you don’t go.

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.

I'd been in love before - I was always in love.

Though negative things have happened to me, God somehow let me know that becoming bitter was not the way to go. You die when you do that. Someone once told me that if you fully open your arms to receive love, you'll get some scratches and cuts on your arms, but a lot of love will come in. If you close your arms, you might never get cut - but the good stuff won't come in either.