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

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.

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.

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.

It tells us the truth about each one of them in order that against the background of human breakdown and failure we may magnify the grace of God and recognize that it is the delight of the Spirit of God to work upon the platform of human impossibilities.

With a background in science I am extremely interested in the meeting ground of science, theology, and philosophy, especially the ethical questions at the border of science and theology.

Like it or not the American people support the term ‘background check.’

My mother’s background was Scottish.

Space is not just an empty background in which things happen.

The Welfare State, South Africa – and it becomes impossible to seriously confront any of them without understanding their historical background.

They support the concept of it even though they know it won’t work to keep guns out of the hands of criminals they figure ‘well if criminals aren’t supposed to have guns what’s the big deal about a background check,’

If you don’t have the background awareness of oneness, duality becomes real.