I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less.
No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.
The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.
I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.
I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy.
It was Dr. King's tireless activism that fostered our modern way of relating to one another.
My older brother and myself always played together in bands, but we never knew we would be professional musicians.
My daddy expected that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He had lived in an America of continual social progress.
When people dress well, they play well.
I wanted to make somebody feel like Coltrane made me feel, listening to it.
My father is a jazz musician, so I grew up hearing jazz. My parents loved it, but I didn't like it. It went on for too long. Yes, I had certain teachers that really inspired me, like Danny Barker, and John Longo. And I had no idea that I would have a...
My daddy thought - no, he expected - that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He was correct in his belief because he had lived in an America of continual social progress, depression followed by prosperity, segre...
Many of our greatest musicians abandoned all of their aesthetic objectives to try to become pertinent. And, at the end of the day, they never became pop stars. I counter stated that very strongly, and I continue to do that.
There's always the cliche of the choir shouting and clapping. OK, you have to do that, but there's also introspective parts, parts where you just follow someone that's preaching. There's lots of different emotions and moods that a service requires.
I sounded like myself. People be saying I sound like Miles or Clifford Brown.
Even in these times, there are still neighbors that will turn their backs on neighbors.
I play piano and drums very poorly and French horn and tuba all equally as bad.
