Music Is The Center Of My Life.

Jazz Is Not Just Music, It's A Way Of Life, It's A Way Of Being, A Way Of Thinking. . . . The New Inventive Phrases We Make Up To Describe Things - All That To Me Is Jazz Just As Much As The Music We Play.

Tomorrow, I Might Be In A Different Mood And You Wouldn't Recognize My Voice.

Slavery Has Never Been Abolished From America's Way Of Thinking.

I Would Like You To Know, I Am A Doctor Of Music.

Music Is An Art And Art Has Its Own Rules. And One Of Them Is That You Must Pay More Attention To It Than Anything Else In The World, If You Are Going To Be True To Yourself. And If You Don't Do It - And You Are An Artist - It Punishes You.