There are only two kinds of music – good and bad.
Duke Ellington
Play with conviction. The audience is not interested in self-doubt.
Art Blakey
If music be the food of love, play on.
William Shakespeare
Excellence is an art won by training and habitation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
Thomas A. Edison
Falling in love with jazz is exactly like falling in love with a person...except with jazz, you never get over it.
Beegie Adair
The specialists are sooo much better than the copycats.
Jim Wilke, Host of "Jazz After Hours"
Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Continue to learn.
Appreciate your friends.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
Mary Anne Radmacher
If you're not giving 100 percent today, you can't make it up tomorrow. Make everyday your masterpiece.
Coach John Wooden
Integrity is telling yourself the truth. Honesty is telling the truth to other people.
Spencer Johnson
Every second counts.
Lance Armstrong
A champion never waits for a coach to instruct him to get in shape or to learn more.
Jim Brown, on Walter Payton
Jazz is what Mama & Daddy learned to dance to, love through, fight over, and make up under.
Connye Florance
Give me a bowl of wine–in it I will bury all unkindness.
William Shakespeare
Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
I am easily satisfied with the very best.
Winston Churchill
Find the good and praise it.
Alex Haley
What you have is not as important as what you are.
Walter Payton
Live the life you imagine.
Henry David Thoreau
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it in. Let it come in.
Morrie Schwartz
I would rather have it said, 'he lived usefully' than 'he died rich.’
Benjamin Franklin
Life’s too short to listen to bad music.
Gregory Byerline