I played in rhumba bands, mickey mouse bands; all kinds of bands.

You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.

My dark sound could be heard across a room clearer than somebody with a reedy sound. It had more projection. My sound always seemed to fill a room.

A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas.

As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.

Life is too full of distractions nowadays. When I was a kid we had a little Emerson radio and that was it. We were more dedicated. We didn't have a choice.

I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you got.

You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles.

Records used to be documents, but now record companies want product.

The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument that is outside of your body.

We made records to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records. I still feel that way. I put out a record because I think it's beautiful, not necessarily commercial.

I appreciate men like Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins very much.

If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice.

I played in rhumba bands, mickey mouse bands; all kinds of bands.

I still don't know precisely why The Mickey Mouse Club ended when it did.

We already live a very long time for mammals, getting three times as many heartbeats as a mouse or elephant. It never seems enough though, does it?

The image we have would be impossible for Mickey Mouse to maintain. We're just... normal people.

The guy has to kill the spider and get the dead mouse outta the pool.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

I used to have this little mouse. I buy birds from the pet store and I let them go.

I'm Mickey Mouse. They don't know who's inside the suit.

The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.

Las Vegas without Wayne Newton is like Disneyland without Mickey Mouse.

When I was 15, I was naive, looked like a grey mouse and felt second choice.

If you were to look back at me as a school kid you'd see a very quiet little church mouse kind of character.

Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear.

My dear friend Jimmie Dodd was the heart and the soul of The Mickey Mouse Club.

Many cats are the death of the mouse.

I hope we don't get to the point where we have to have the cat stop chasing the mouse to teach him glassblowing and basket weaving.

When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.

What about Mickey Mouse? Disney tried very hard to make him a star. But Mickey Mouse is more of a symbol than a real character.

The fundamental problem with vi is that it doesn't have a mouse and therefore you've got all these commands.

Of the many guests we welcomed to the Mickey Mouse Club, my absolute favorites were the Lennon Sisters.

That was real baseball. We weren't playing for money. They gave us Mickey Mouse watches that ran backwards.

A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.

This dapper little mouse that wore such cute clothes and said such interesting things, yeah. I thought it was a great idea to have a mouse like that in your family, so now I get to see what it was like.

The purpose of the UN mechanism, this inspection mechanism, is not to engage in a cat and mouse game with Saddam Hussein and try to find weapons that the Iraqi government is working on concealing.

Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.

The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they do not want to attract attention.

Mickey Mouse... is always there-he's part of my life. That really is something not everyone can call their claim to fame.

I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

We know that in 2001 it was believed 78 stem cell lines existed. But now we know there are only 22 that are viable, and they have been contaminated with mouse stem cells.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

I write with a mouse, because it has no psychological associations or memories or habits associated with it.

Two old Bachelors were living in one house; One caught a Muffin, the other caught a Mouse.

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

For a while I was thinking about moving the mouse with my hand.

All the children had to wear a gas mask in case of a gas attack by the Germans. They tried to make the masks like Mickey Mouse faces so the children would like them. But I didn't. They had big ears on them.