My mission is to try to get a lot more global view.
Jazz is not a 'form' but a collection of tags and tricks.
The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.
The greatest composer does not sit down to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.
The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.
A good composer is slowly discovered and a bad composer is slowly found out.
The finest singing, given a good voice to begin with, comes from the constant play of a fine mind upon the inner meaning of the music.
I believe that the fact that I am religious brings me closer to anyone with a different faith.
You want to run out in front, prepare to be tripped from behind.
Someday, Will, I will go where none can follow me, and I think it will be sooner rather than later. Have you ever asked yourself why I agreed to be your parabatai?
In the cab to the station, he told me that when he was growing up he'd see a look of pleasure cross his mother's face and ask what she was thinking: she'd say, I was just thinking of your father. "That's how I want us to be," Archie said. I smiled. "What?" I said, "I was just thinking of your father.