I am an architect, first.
I'm just a nice and easy person.
If I'm going to do blues, it's going to be a typical Jimmy Rushing record.
I worked on a film short with Frank Sinatra when I was a kid.
Words are most malignant, the most treacherous possession of mankind. They are saturated with the sorrows of all time.
Frank Sinatra is the only one that went from teen idol to superstar.
If somebody would come and they're not playing music, they would encounter certain people on another level.
Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz isn't.
People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do.
Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media.
Music is just kind of an expression of who I am. It's what I do.
I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
It's just that some people are lucky and people still seem to enjoy the music.
The music is going to die if you don't tap into something that people today can relate to.
Within reasonable limits, a professional player should keep busy at music.
Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin.
Nothing is invented, for it's written in nature first.
My musical development stopped when Frank Sinatra died.
I'll play with a hundred pieces or do a solo job.
Tyson, Frank is a descendant of Poseidon." "Brother!" Tyson crushed Frank in a hug. Percy stifled a laugh. "Actually he's more like a great-great-...Oh, never mind. Yeah, he's your brother." "Thanks." Frank mumbled through a mouthful of flannel.
Frank Abagnale Sr.: Where's your mother? Frank Abagnale, Jr.: I don't know. She said something about going to look for a job. Frank Abagnale Sr.: What's she gonna be, a shoe salesman at a centipede farm?
