“It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.” — Dizzy Gillespie Quote

It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.

I'd like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition.

I think the idea is now for blacks to write about the history of our music. It's time for that, because whites have been doing it all the time. It's time for us to do it ourselves and tell it like it is.

I always try to teach by example and not force my ideas on a young musician. One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.

I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.

All my life... I believed in Malaysian merger and unity of the two territories. You know that we, as a people, are connected by geography, economics, by ties of kinship.

I've lived next door to people all my life. I don't know how cute they think I am.

I have dabbled in martial arts all my life, since I was 7, maybe - tae kwon do, capoeira, Muay Thai. It's always been an interest because in martial arts there is a mind/body relationship.

I work hard all my life and now I show the people how I come from oldest country in the world to live the America dream.