“If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.”

“If you have to ask what jazz is you will never know." Louis Armstrong”

“Man, if you have to ask what it [jazz] is, youll never know.”

“If it sounds good, it is good.”

“Music is life itself. What would this world be without good music? No matter what kind it is.”

“Musicians don't retire they stop when there's no more music in them. ”

“You are your own best teacher. ~Jimmy Buffett”

“There is no roles. No one is keeping any roles. The drummer is also answering everybody and everything. So it is a constant conversation and communication between musicians on an extremely high lev...”

“The Yankees, the first mechanicians in the world, are engineers - just as the Italians are musicians and the Germans metaphysicians - by right of birth. Nothing is more natural, therefore, than to ...”

“Don't simply retire from something have something to retire to. ”

“Don't simply retire from something have something to retire to.”

“Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, 'Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.' Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too!”

“I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.”

“He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed.”