It's extremely important for women to be writing their own stories and giving them to people to really be emotionally impacted by
Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.
Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.
Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities.
Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions.
Ideas come through us, not from us.
Creativity is not being afraid to be different. It takes madness to jump at an idea that no one else believes in.
As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.
The first jazz cruise that I was on was '91. I played with Maria Schneider and John Fedchock's band. Got to meet some amazing people that week.
Dance with all the might of your body, and all the fire of your soul, in order that you may shake all melancholy out of your liver; and you need not restrain yourself with the apprehension that any lady will have the least fear that the violence of your movements will ever shake anything out of your brains.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change.