Gray skies are just clouds passing over.

Critics have their purposes, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have don…

I am a bandleader and I am a composer. I am not a teacher.

By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.

Say to them, say to the down-keepers, the sun-slappers, the self-soilers, the harmony-hushers, 'even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.' Y…

When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.

Life cannot be destroyed for good, neither ... can history be brought entirely to a halt. A secret streamlet trickles on beneath the heavy lid of inertia and p…