You can't force someone to see the truth, just like you can't force a blind man to see.
Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America.
Life is a lot like jazz. . . it's best when you improvise.
True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time.
Originality is the only thing that counts. But the originator uses material and ideas that occur round him and pass through him. And out of his experience comes the original creation.
The composer does not sit around and wait for an inspiration to walk up and introduce itself…Making music is actually little else than a matter of invention aided and abetted by emotion. In composing we combine what we know of music with what we feel.
I like to think of music as an emotional science.
A car is a big thing for anyone going into adulthood, it's a big seminal moment.
A tablecloth restaurant is still one of the great rewards of civilization.
Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.
I apologize if there's a Parkinson's painter in the audience. I assume you do your best work in the morning. Probably gets abstract by noon.