I always told the people at Cal Arts that if they wanted me to do Jazz studies, first of all, there couldn't be a big band within 500 miles and that I could do what I wanted to do. And they said I could.
“Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.”
“A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.”