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

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

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

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.

The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.

Science adjusts its views based on what’s observed.

Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.

We touched base at several strategic locations down our bodies, and it took all my willpower to break away.

Security isn’t just a feature, it’s a base, it’s a fundamental, right.

Music is where I started. It’s kind of the base of everything.

My definition of slavery is the deprivation of human volition, any form of relationship between two peoples which is based on the deprivation of volition of one side.

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority.