Life Quotes

"When you come down to it, there are really not many important things."

"Life and music are the same, both require improvisation."

"I think we have only one life and we should live it the way we want to live it. But we should do it in a way that respects the rights and feelings of other people."

"What we play is life. But we trying to play life in a more beautiful way than life plays it on us."

"I never made a lot of money, but I made a lot of memories and that's worth more than gold."

"Life is a lot like jazz - it's better when you improvise"

"Age is a matter of the spirit"

"My goal is to live the fullest life possible, to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate"

"I sang the way I walked through life - just taking it as it came."

"To live is to create; to create is to live."

"Life is a wonderful thing if you have the spirit to enjoy it and share it with others."

"Man, sometimes it snows in April."

"Life is about living, and music is about living."

"Music is a celebration of existence."

"Life is a journey, not a destination."

"Life is a gift. Open it."

"We all do ad-libbing. We ad-lib in life."

"Life is too short to play boring music."

"Live fast and leave a beautiful corpse."

"Life is too short not to play what moves your spirit."

"To live is to express; to express is to play."

"Life is a lot like jazz. It's better when you improvise."

"Every piece I write is an attempt to understand something about myself."

"I loved the spontaneity of jazz because it mirrored real life."

"Life moves too fast not to have a soundtrack to make sense of it."

"The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed and careful adjustments we fall and get crushed."

"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."

"Life is like playing a musical instrument without having studied it first."

"I want to wake up and do what comes natural."

"Music is the soundtrack to life."