“The whole thing of being in music is not to control it but to be swept away by it.”

Israel being condemned by the EU, which 66 years ago watched with glee as its Jews were being mass murdered. That is pretty rich.

For me, I’ve always believed that there was a God. I’ve always believed that God created the heavens and earth – so, for me it’s not a huge leap from there to intelligent design.

I have always been very concerned that Darwinism gave the basic okay to terrible racism and to the idea of murder based upon race.

I tell you why I don’t think I will ever vote for a Democrat, if I may say so. Because for me, the number one issue is right to life, and I don’t think the Democrats are very good on the right-to-life issue.

Darwinism doesn’t explain where gravity comes from. It doesn’t explain where thermodynamics comes from. It doesn’t explain where the laws of physics come from. It doesn’t explain where matter comes from.

If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.

After all the black man has been through in this world, he can still often reach levels of spirituality the most pampered white man cannot touch. Maybe what he’s been through is the reason why.

Humans are alive, therefore life must be complex.

The scientific community says that if you even mention God as causes of anything scientific, you’re gone.

I don’t think Wall Street people in general are smart. I think that’s one of the biggest myths in American lore. They’re tough, aggressive, greedy, quick thinking but I don’t think they’re particularly smart at all.

I am scared of running out of money.

I cannot tell you … how to be rich. But I can tell you how to feel rich, which is far better, let me tell you firsthand, than being rich. Be grateful… It is the only totally reliable get rich quick scheme.

So, who in the media is without sin among us? I am in the media and I am a major league sinner. I don’t know anyone except my wife who isn’t a big time sinner.

The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.

It’s a great stretch for me to do my game show. It’s very hard. It’s not me at all. The only part that’s me is sort of when I’m sitting in the booth looking tormented. That’s the only part that’s the real me.

When are American Jews going to realize that the Republican Party is far better for Israel than the Democrats?

Jazz is the art of thinking out loud.

Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities.

Are you stalking me, Mr. Fulton?” The idea both amused and horrified Jazz.

You have to enjoy playing. The old-timers did, and that’s one reason why their music is a lasting music. I feel that I play jazz to entertain the listener, and you just can’t do that unless you yourself are entertained at the same time.

The challenge to the improvisor is to get permanence into his spontaneity.

I never liked jazz or anything else. Early rock n’ roll – that was music to me. Everything else was boring.

That the land that had produced American jazz, the blues, the spirituals, the mountain ballads and the work songs had gone sterile.

Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another themeM