Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
If you think you can do it, you can.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
I can, therefore I am.
Know or listen to those who know.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history.