We had our breakfasts--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast.
The first jazz musician was a trumpeter, Buddy Bolden, and the last will be a trumpeter, the archangel Gabriel.
Through improvisation, jazz teaches you about yourself. And through swing, it teaches you that other people are individuals too. It teaches you how to coordinate with them.
Jazz music is the power of now.
Jazz is democracy in music.
Flexibility is an essential part of Jazz. It's what gives Jazz music the ability to combine with all other types of music and not lose its identity.
Ethics are more important than laws. Which means that the exact note is less important than the feeling of the note.
When you want to arrive at your goal more than you want to be doing what you are doing, you become stressed.
Executives will talk about the importance of passion, but what they really mean is finding somebody who will work nights and weekends on their assigned task but predictably and reliably follow orders and just work harder.
The ocean has always been a salve to my soul.
Once a federal law or policy is in place it is more difficult to kill than a vampire.