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

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.

Discourse and critical thinking are essential tools when it comes to securing progress in a democratic society. But in the end unity and engaged participation are what make it happen.

The greatest luxury is not driving. I didn't own a car until I was 30, and that was a Rolls-Royce, so it was cheaper to insure a chauffeur. I never want to drive again. My mind is always on other things. I hate parking, and I'm very short-tempered and would get road rage, I'm sure.

Tough times helped many commodities producers become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost-cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped up.

People always accuse me of making these dark, depressing movies. 'Why do you have to pick up on real issues? People are so exhausted and miserable.'

Thanks to everyone who's encouraged and supported my work over the years.

I think the media loves taking the most absurd clips for a sport that has become congressional politics.

When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.

Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.

I was into Alan Moore and Frank Miller. I was a teenager when all those books where coming out for the first time - 'Watchmen,' 'V for Vendetta.' It was a great time to get into comics.

Personalized news aggregators are geared around connecting you to news sources; we're about connecting you to your friends. To people you're inspired by. To people that you're following on Facebook and Twitter.

It's really nice to be in something that you really love and want to share with people. And then, for it to actually get shown and for people to be able to see it is awesome. It's really exciting.

I only wish Chet Atkins could be here for this joyous occasion.

Anyone who doesn't agree with the Left's approach to immigration oftentimes gets stigmatized as anti-immigrant or anti-Hispanic.

You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen not by what you attempt

I'd kill to be 'Doctor Who.' Maybe they could make the Doctor two people? He has got two hearts, after all.

Guys who are charismatic and fun-loving and sweet and generous are the ones I want to date.

There will always be excuses, arguments, and questions of timing when moving on difficult and controversial issues.

Fashion only seems to make sense if it's rooted in some dimension of history or if it feels like a continuation of an idea.

Balthazar has a great New York vibe with the accent of a Parisian brasserie. I usually have the corned beef hash with a fried egg on top and wash it all down with Krug Champagne.

When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don’t see the one that has opened for us.

First of all I thought it was ugly, I thought it was ridiculous that undercover police guys would drive a striped tomato and I've never been a big champion of Ford.

I discover that my friends think only of my apparel, and those upon whom I have conferred acts of kindness prefer to remind me of my errors.

Like a starfish, the heart endures its amputation.

Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.