Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed or governed their passions, but because they have cultivate their understandings.
Krupa's drums went through us like a triple bourbon.
They flat their fifths, we drink ours.
Ted Lewis could make the clarinet talk. What it said was put me back in the case!
As it enters the ear, does it come in like broken glass, or does it come in like honey?
Finally Beiderbecke came out with a silver cornet. He put it to his lips and blew a phrase. The sound came out like a girl saying 'yes'.
For a bad hangover take the juice of two quarts of whisky.
Free yourself. Live your life. Stop apologizing for who you are.
The best way to serve God is by going in search of your own dreams. Only the happy can spread happiness.
I found very early on when I became a hip-hop artist that I loved telling stories. Actually, when I was trying to get a message across it was more powerful when I told a story, rather than if I used a metaphor or if I preached about an issue. And through doing that I realised that actually these stories were very visual in my head and I couldn't wait to make the videos.
The man who has lived his life totally, intensely, passionately, without any fear - without any fear that has been created in you by the priests for centuries and centuries - if a person lives his life without any fear, authentically, spontaneously, death will not create any fear in him, not at all. In fact, death will come as a great rest. Death will come as the ultimate flowering of life. He will be able to enjoy death too; he will be able to celebrate death too.