Some of the overflow audience actually sat on the stage.

Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.

To this day, I don't like people walking on stage not looking good. You have to look good. If you feel special about yourself then you're going to play special.

Some of the overflow audience actually sat on the stage.

After you've done all the work and prepared as much as you can, what the hell, you might as well go out and have a good time.

I remember Glenn Miller coming to me once, before he had his own band, saying, How do you do it? How do you get started? It's so difficult. I told him, I don't know but whatever you do don't stop. Just keep on going.

If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice.

Too many young musicians today want to win polls before they learn their instruments.

One way or the other, if you want to find reasons why you shouldn't keep on, you'll find 'em. The obstacles are all there; there are a million of 'em.

That night at Carnegie Hall was a great experience. When the thing was first put up to me I was a little dubious, not knowing just what would be expected of us.

As soon as it was understood that we could handle things in our own way, it was the thrill of my life to walk out on that stage with people just hemming the band in.

It is the part of a fool to give advice to others and not himself to be on his guard.

When I see old photos of me on the beach I don't look too bad... but it's hard trying to breathe in for such a long time when I spot the photographers!

Hope for love, pray for love, wish for love, dream for love but don't put your life on hold waiting for love

I think that often times Hollywood panders to the cliches of small town life, specifically Southern small town life, and I think that this movie does the opposite.

I learned so much more prepping vegetables than I ever did in cooking school.

I can and I will.

When I started as an actor, I kind of started with a couple features. I've been waiting for the opening.

When you're good at making excuses, it's hard to excel at anything else.

That I feel a desire, my friends, that we in this latter day of the world, in which light is fast spreading, that we should be willing to attend to those portions of the Scriptures of truth that direct us home to the foundation.

Going home and spending time with your family and your real friends keeps you grounded.

You cannot make an aircraft without forged components.

Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.

Loving discipline encourages a child to respect other people and live as a responsible constructive citizen.

A cheerleader is a dreamer that never gives up.

Nobody destroys people - people destroy themselves, and it's very, very sad.

I say to everybody, 'Adoption is not for the faint of heart.'

It's going to be a long, hot summer. The hotter it gets in Baghdad, the hotter it will get in D.C.

I always love the soapy conflicts between somebody's family of origin and their new family - 'Do I have Thanksgiving at my husband's parents' house, or at my parents' house?'

Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training.

Friday the 13th is still better than Monday the whatever.

One of the things that made me persist in the Antarctic in the face of sickening discouragements was my determination to name a portion of the earth's surface after my father.

Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for.

In Russia, writers with serious grievances are arrested, while in America they are merely featured on television talk shows, where all that is arrested is their development.

I think people have to be more aware of what the repercussions are of their actions.