 A problem is your chance to do your best. |
| On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine. |
| Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited. Topics: Love Is |
| Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees. |
| The wise musicians are those who play what they can master. |
| A man is a god in ruins. |
| You've got to find some way of saying it without saying it. |
| There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone. |
| Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young. |
| Playing "bop" is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing. |
| Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it. |
| I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. |
| A problem is a chance for you to do your best. |
| Critics have their purposes, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what they did. |
| There are two kinds of worries - those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter. |
| My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never. |
| People do not retire. They are retired by others. |
| Gray skies are just clouds passing over. |
| It's like an act of murder; you play with intent to commit something. |
| By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with. |
