“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.

I think the longer Britain is in Europe the better.

Do you seriously propose that they are going to be so insane as to allow tariffs to be imposed. The EU is, I’m afraid a job destroying engine.

Traveling makes you realize what an immeasurably nice place much of America could be if only people possessed the same instinct for preservation as they do in Europe.

Oh, lovely Europe, your flowers and your wine, your bread, your music.

Now that Serbia is moving towards integration into Europe, the opportunities to get closer cooperation may very well exist.

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.