Some stances are just conducive to swinging. If I stand up straight for too long it's harder to swing. Plus my feet hurt.

The heart of a music is its rhythm. The heart of rhythm section music is the rhythm.

My mother always took my brothers and me to music lessons. There were six children. Our parents attended our concerts and encouraged us to study and enjoy many different types of music.

We looked up to our father. He still is much greater than us.

Those who play for applause....Tha t’s all they get.

What, other than injustice, could be the reason that the displaced citizens of New Orleans cannot be accommodated by the richest nation in the world?

We need more math classes, we need more science. It's the art of math and the art of science that creates all the innovation, and we have a tradition of great arts, great music.