Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.
I've always thought Blues Point Tower is one of my best buildings and I stand by that.
My wife has her stuff and her taste, and I have my stuff and my taste.
It fills one with a sense of architectural possibility.
Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful.
There's no worse feeling than seeing my buildings and realizing the mistakes.
Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.
There is a modern take on certain things you can do that, to me, is still jazz.
What advice do I tell my grandson? I listen to him.
Records used to be documents, but now record companies want product.
And when I play they know I exist, and it leaves a space when I go.
The most fun is to play clubs, because you actually get to see the people.
I had a clear vision: if I take up an assignment, I'll do full justice to it; otherwise I'll walk away.
In a small room one does not say what one would in a large room.
I write songs from the heart, and I don't hold back.
What the people are within, the buildings express without.
a man without dreams is a man without hope, if a man loses his hope, he is as good as dead ...
I have no idea what I'm doin'. I've never seen me.
Traveling these days has a lot of problems and also it wears you out more.
What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate.
I think it's an awful drink, to be honest with you.
