“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.

I think it’s good for a fan base because as we all know the majority of the fans are white America. And if you just had a couple of white guys in there, you might get them a little excited.

We did not want, from garbage and nuclear wastes to sludge from sewage to entire ships that had reached the end of their useful life.

Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.

Notre Dame is the one school that has a national recruiting base, from Florida to Texas to California.

If I’ve got a good pinch-hitter, I hate to have him stay on the bench with men on the bases in an early inning. He may end the game right there.

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.

When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me.

Because anybody can find their fan base through the Internet.