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.

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.

It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.

The dome of the U.S. Capitol has fallen into severe disrepair... As the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, which oversees matters of the Capitol's physical plant, I have serious concerns about the consequences of omitting this funding from the stopgap spending measure.

When I'm in need of a quick meal or party dish, a burger is hands-down my go-to pick! Burgers are easy, fast, and don't even require utensils to eat, making them the perfect get-together main course, tailgating essential, and simple dinner recipe to whip up any night of the week.

Generally, an indie film in the U.K. is put together much like in the states. We got a tax credit. You sell the domestic rights, which can be quite low, but it's enough to push you over the line. And you get a tax credit on top of that, and then you cobble it together with private equity or gap financing and things like that.

Americans are accustomed to welcoming, or at least receiving, refugees from other countries, not creating our own.

When youre on the crossroads and gone down the wrong path in life theres no harm in turning around and walking the other way.

Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that.

The only thing I can do is type. I learned that when I was 13.

They say that people teach what they need to learn. By adopting the role of happiness teacher, if only for myself, I was trying to find the method to conquer my particular faults and limitations.

It's not being marketed as a gay show by a gay person. It's just Ellen DeGeneres.

I had been very close to Anne Bancroft when we worked together in The Miracle Worker.

There are very few people who have had as much public impact as I've already had... without being elected to public office in Massachusetts.

Everybody's at war with different things, I'm at war with my own heart sometimes.

Let's be honest. Georgia, if you get the best players in this state, you should be winning championships.

People who avoid the brick walls all power to ya but we all have to hit them sometimes in order to push through to the next level to evolve.

In any case, you can't turn back the clock.

Gravity is more powerful where there's more stuff.

Render to God what you owe him; recognize the obligations you are under to him.

An hour or two spent in writing from dictation, another hour or two in reading aloud, a little geography and a little history and a little physics made the day pass busily.

It was very important to establish a sound, so that people heard a record on the radio and knew immediately that it was you.

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

There's not many good comedies to watch - you know, comedies that make you glad you watched them.

When I'm home, I spend Sunday with my husband. If we're not cooking, we travel around in our camper, stop at fast-food restaurants, and picnic. We love that stuff that will harden your arteries in a hurry.