Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.

Playing gives me as much good feeling now as it did when I was a bitty kid.

Music was our wife, and we loved her. And we stayed with her, and we clothed her, and we put diamond rings on her hands.

Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general.

Black and white players hadn't appeared together in public before Teddy Wilson and I began working with B.G.

Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God.

Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.

I think I love it more as I get older because I keep getting better on drums, vibes and piano.

I feel honored to have been a part of that dramatic change.

I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.

Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.

The secret is keeping busy, and loving what you do.

So I always figured I'd still be playing at this age.

Every day I look forward to getting with my instruments, trying new things.

The difference between talking on your cell phone while driving and speaking with a passenger is huge. The person on the other end of the cell phone is chattering away, oblivious.

If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton.

I don't know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we've been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.

There's nothing worse than talking about yourself to find out that you're not that interesting.

Colonel Parker asked Henry and me to come to Elvis' suite and have breakfast. There were at least five policemen stationed up there. He was talking on the telephone.

I'll be helping them getting suited up, getting them in the airlock, getting the airlock prepared, and getting them out the hatch, and then talking them through these three spacewalks.

I don't see this planet being... they're talking about how they're turning around the environmental problems here, but I think it's already too late.

Over and over again, financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious, 'toxic' financial instruments to us lay folk. Over and over, they ignobly fail, because we all know that no one understands credit default obligations and derivatives, except perhaps Mr. Buffett and the computers who created them.

I don't know how much influence we really had, because we never put our pictures on the albums or anything and we never really promoted the Talking Heads connection, because we wanted to keep it separate from Talking Heads.

I do not believe that I have had an interview with anybody in twenty-five years in which the person to whom I was talking was not annoyed during the early part of the interview by my asking stupid questions.

I never took my SAT's. I never applied to college. I moved right out here and jumped into the thick of things. Whether that was the smart move or not, I'm sitting here talking to you now, so it paid off.

But let's be clear. We're talking about a country where there's no opposition. As leader he can ignore Parliament and - sorry that's Tony Blair isn't it? Um, so he doesn't even have to ask the country before he goes to war - sorry that's still Tony Blair.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

We need people out talking about the President, explaining, agreeing with and praising his actions.

I was on Oprah's show recently talking about the people who impacted me the most. One was a teacher and one was my soccer coach. I didn't even go into my family, who had the most influence.

I love talking about women because they are a constant study and you're always learning.

When people screamed novelty the first time around talking about an ugly video and stuff I was really insulted because, hold on a minute, everyone you see in the video are real life.

We all laughed. It was more like that whole thing that I was talking about earlier. You go to training camp and after the season is over, you might not see the guys for six months until you go back to training camp.

If you watch the show and the characters don't look at each other while they're talking, the actors probably aren't getting along.

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.

Some day, somebody is going to have to start talking about what happens to us all a decade from now if we let these North Koreans and the Iranians go forward with their nuclear weapons program.

I'm talking like 10, 12 years old. Either junior brings Mom and Pop or Mom and Pop bring the kids. I'm talking young here, not a college drinking crowd.

The people who make policy decisions should damned well know what they are talking about before they make the decisions. There is nobody who is an expert on cloning who would be afraid after seeing Attack of the Clones.

You meet new people. We just spent two hours with people we didn't know before, just talking about the Badgers.

I have thought about the next steps, and you know, they still don't know that I can dance. They don't know it, and it's frustrating me because I feel that it's an edge that I have, and I'm not talking about I took this hip hop class, I'm talking about this is how people actually know me.

There's probably a way to use that great content and to live under the radar now and then in order to reach a new audience. That's the thinking I'm talking about.

When you're talking with a person at this level of the government, at the very highest level, I think you have to be very discreet because he, President Clinton, is very aware that anything he says publicly can have a profound impact on American politics and on world politics.

The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event.

I don't mind snakes. Growing up in South Africa there were a couple a snakes around... and I'm not talking just about the government!

If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow.

No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.

If you are talking about terrorism, you need to sit down and understand what is making these people put dynamite around their waists and blow themselves up.

But I try not to become preoccupied with that because with whatever direction I follow, with whatever advice I've followed or not followed, It's landed me in New York, in a very beautiful hotel, talking to people about something that I love. So I ain't that far off.

Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.