“Many fail to realize this great recording industry was built by so-called jazz artists.”

The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people are gonna say about your life and your work.

And at the other end of the spectrum, a base in European classical music as well.

If you’re gonna live for what people say, you might as well lay down and forget it. Because it doesn’t work that way.

I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I am always seeking.

Jazz Improvisation means that practice is not as straightforward as it would be when you simply have a score to play.

You’ve got a big, big problem if you get caught up in what people say.

Mr. McVicker instilled self-respect in those of us who were his students, because he respected us regardless of our background.

I have looked to the Steinway piano since I was three, not only as my ideal choice of an instrument. But, as a responsive and ever reliable friend.

No less a bold and pugnacious figure than Winston Churchill broke down and was unable to finish his remarks at the sendoff of the British Expeditionary Force into the maelstrom of World War I in Europe.

Southern Europe has not done enough to enhance its competitiveness, while northern Europe has not done enough to boost demand. Debt burdens remain crushing, and Europe’s economy remains unable to grow.

It is not a case of whether we want to wash our hands of Europe or want to help her to regain her feet. The troubles of Europe have been laid on our doorstep, so to speak, and will plague us, if we do nothing to cure them, whether we like it or not.

Since Europe is dependent on imports of energy and most of its raw materials, it can be subdued, if not quite conquered, without all those nuclear weapons the Soviets have aimed at it simply through the shipping routes and raw materials they control.

Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.

There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold.

Europe resolved a great problem-the problem of the Zionist danger.

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.