“There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there whe...” — Duke Ellington Quote

There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.

I don't need time, I need a deadline.

Playing 'bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.

On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine.

A man is a god in ruins.

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.

Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.