/usr/bin/fortune:

• "A Riverside, California, health ordinance states that two persons may not kiss each other without first wiping their lips with carbolized rosewater."

/usr/bin/fortune:

• "Experience is what you get when you were expecting something else."

/usr/bin/fortune:

• "Don't cook tonight -- starve a rat today!"

/usr/bin/fortune:

• "The difference between men and boys, is the price of their toys ..."

/usr/bin/fortune:

• "But I don't like Spam!!!!"

/usr/bin/fortune:

• "Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing."

/usr/bin/fortune:

• "Entropy isn't what it used to be."

/usr/bin/fortune:

• "Carelessly planned projects take three times longer to complete than expected. Carefully planned projects take four times longer to
  complete than expected, mostly because the planners expect their planning to reduce the time it takes."

/usr/bin/fortune:

• "If you can read this, you're too close"

/usr/bin/fortune:

• "Our country has plenty of good five-cent cigars, but the trouble is they charge fifteen cents for them."

/usr/bin/fortune:

• A musician of more ambition than talent composed an elegy at the death of composer Edward MacDowell. She played the elegy for the
  pianist Josef Hoffman, then asked his opinion. "Well, it's quite nice," he replied, but don't you think it would be better if ..."
  "If what?" asked the composer.
  "If ... if you had died and MacDowell had written the elegy?"

/usr/bin/fortune:

• "Weiner's Law of Libraries:
  There are no answers, only cross references."

/usr/bin/fortune:

• "Meskimen's Law:
  There's never time to do it right, but there's always time to do it over."

/usr/bin/fortune:

• "The day-to-day travails of the IBM programmer are so amusing to most of us who are fortunate enough never to have been one -- like watching Charlie Chaplin trying to cook a shoe."

Albert Einstein:

• "Imagination is more important than knowledge. With knowledge, we have the facts. With imagination, we have the Universe."

Albert Einstein:

• "Piprökning bidrar till en lugn och objektiv bedömning av allt som angår människor"

Albert Mangelsdorff:

• "Frage eines Reporters nach der Rückkehr von einer Tour im Auftrag des Goethe-Insitituts durch Asien:
  'Herr Mangelsdorff, Sie haben mit dem thailändischen König Bhumipol gespielt. Wie spielt der König Saxophon?'
  'Also für'n König ganz gut' "

anomymous:

• "Do wat Du wullt, de Lüd snack doch."

anonymous:

• "How late does the band play?"
  "About half a beat behind the drummer."

anonymous:

• "UN*X is sexy!
  
  who | grep -i red | date; cd ~; unzip; touch; strip; finger; mount; gasp; yes; uptime; umount; sleep"

anonymous:

• "A bug is a feature that didn't make it into the manual."

anonymous:

• "UNIX is not user-unfriendly. It merely
  expects users to be computer-friendly."

anonymous:

• "Der kännd sisch Dauwe halle, e Schlag hadder schonn."

anonymous:

• "A pure Malt and a pipe or cigar go together well.
  Smoke in Peace"

Anthony Chevins:

• "One man's brain plus one other will produce one half as many ideas as one man would have produced alone.
  These two plus two more will produce half again as many ideas.
  These four plus four more begin to represent a creative meeting, and the ratio changes to one quarter as many ..."

Antoine de Saint Exupéry:

• "Die Sprache ist Quelle aller Mißverständnisse."

Archie Shepp:

• "Love is fundamental to art. I can't go to work with hate in my heart. I go to work with love in my heart. But love can express itself in bitterness and rage."

Art Tatum:

• "You have to practice improvisation, let no one kid you about it!"

B.B. King:

• "Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning."

B.B. King:

• "The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You were a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it."

Benjamin Franklin:

• "Visitors begin to stink like fish after three days!"

Benny Green:

• "A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges."

Bertold Brecht:

• "What is the robbing of a bank compared to the FOUNDING of a bank?"

Billie Holiday:

• "I never sing a song the same way twice."

Billy Eckstine:

• "My view is that you cannot close your mind and say I don't want to listen to this or that. Because if you can't appreciate the bad for being bad, you can't appreciate the good. If you turn a deaf ear to everything but one style, pretty soon it's not going to work out."

Bob Brookmeyer:

• "A jazz man should be saying what he feels. He's one human being talking to others, telling his story - and that means humor and sadness, joy, all the things that humans have."

Boris Vian:

• "How could you not be influenced by reading the same idiocies in ten different jazz journals?"

Branford Marsalis:

• "You don't know what you like, you like what you know. In order to know what you like, you have to know everything."

Cannonball Adderley:

• "A young tenor player was complaining to me that Coleman Hawkins made him nervous. Man, I told him Hawkins was supposed to make him nervous! Hawkins has been making other sax players nervous for forty years!"

Carmen McCrae:

• "Blues is to jazz what yeast is to bread - without it, it's flat."

Charles Mingus:

• "Just because I'm playing jazz I don't forget about me. I play or write me the way I feel through jazz, or whatever. Music is, or was, a language of the emotions."

Charles Mingus:

• "Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple."

Charles Mingus:

• "I'm too busy playing. When I'm playing I don't pay attention to who's listening. When I was listening I listened to symphony orchestras, Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, Stravinsky. You don't listen to one instrument; you listen to music."

Charles Mingus:

• "Had I been born in a different country or had I been born white, I am sure I would have expressed my ideas long ago. Maybe they wouldn't have been as good because when people are born free'I can't imagine it, but I've got a feeling that if it's so easy for you, the struggle and the initiative are not as strong as they are for a person who has to struggle and therefore has more to say."

Charles Mingus:

• "Most customers, by the time the musicians reach the second set, are to some extent inebriated. They don't care what you play anyway."

Charlie Barnet:

• "I like the girls to match the upholstery of the car."

Charlie Parker:

• "Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there is a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art."

Charlie Parker:

• "Master your instrument, Master the music, and then forget all that *!xy!@ and just play."

Charlie Parker:

• "Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art."

Coleman Hawkins:

• "Some people say there was no jazz tenor before me. All I know is I just had a way of playing and I didn't think in terms of any other instrument but the tenor. I honestly couldn't characterize my style in words. It seems like whatever comes to me naturally is what I play."

Count Basie:

• "All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel ... and that's what I've been doing all my life."

Count Basie:

• "I, of course, wanted to play real jazz. When we played pop tunes, and naturally we had to, I wanted those pops to kick! Not loud and fast, understand, but smoothly and with a definite punch."

Dave Liebman:

• "Art is constant tension and release. That is where artists live, between the two, or at times, submerged in either. The challenge is never ending perfection is impossible, it could always be different, better, or worse. It's not important, just process and striving to be like the man who walks the trapeze maintaining balance."

Diana Krall:

• "I spent a lot of time playing in miserable places that were not a lot of fun. Somebody once said it is character building and I was like 'My character is just fine.' "

Dizzy Gillespie:

• "Its taken me all my life to learn what not to play."

Dizzy Gillespie:

• "I’d like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition."

Dizzy Gillespie:

• "I know all the Latin-American rhythms quite well, but I don't play them exactly like they do in their own country - I add my personal touch."

Douglas Adams:

• "The answer to the great ultimate question
  of Life, the Universe and Everything is 42."

Duke Ellington:

• "Playing bop is like playing scrabble with all the vowels missing..."

Duke Ellington:

• "By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with."

Duke Ellington:

• "Roaming through the jungle of 'oohs' and 'ahs', searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats."

Duke Ellington:

• "I'm sure critics have their purpose, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what he did."

Duke Ellington:

• "It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing."

Duke Ellington:

• "I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the piano bench to my left and another to my right."

Duke Ellington:

• "If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!"

Duke Ellington:

• "Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to noone."

Duke Ellington:

• "There is no art without intention."

Duke Ellington:

• "The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen."

Duke Ellington:

• "There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind."

Duke Ellington:

• "If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what I call an American standard, an American original."

Eddie Condon:

• "The boppers flat their fifths. We consume ours."

Eddie Condon:

• "Finally Beiderbecke took out a silver cornet. He put it to his lips and blew a phrase. The sound came out like a girl saying 'yes'."

Eddie Condon:

• "Ted Lewis could make the clarinet talk. What it said was 'put me back in the case!' "

Eddie Condon:

• "Paul Desmond sounds like a female alcoholic."

Eddie Condon:

• "Krupa's drums went through us like a triple bourbon."

Edgar A. Shoaff:

• "Immortality -- a fate worse than death."

Ella Fitzgerald:

• "It isn't where you came from; it's where you're going that counts."

Ella Fitzgerald:

• "The only thing better than singing is more singing."

Ellis Marsalis:

• "At a time when individualism is becoming an endangered species, jazz represents a celebration of the individual."

Ellis Marsalis:

• "Louis Armstrong is the master of the jazz solo. He became the beacon, the light in the tower, that helped the rest of us navigate the tricky waters of jazz improvisation."

Elvin Jones:

• "To me John Coltrane was like an angel on earth. He struck me that deeply."

Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982:

• "In seeking the unattainable, simplicity only gets in the way."

Epperson's law::

• When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at.

Eubie Blake:

• "If I'd known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself!"
  (He lived to 100.)

Eugene Chadbourne:

• "I play music that I myself would like to hear at a concert. Since nobody else makes this kind of music, I play it myself."

F. J. Raymond:

• "Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is really quite as satisfying as an income tax refund."

Fats Waller:

• "This is so nice, it must be illegal."

Firesign Theater:

• "Gee, Mudhead, everyone at More Science High has an extracurricular activity except you."
  "Well, gee, doesn't Louise count?"
  "Only to ten, Mudhead."

found on a.s.p:

• "Few things are more relaxing in life than your pipe, your slippers, and your beagles at your side.
  Now if I could only find my slippers...
  Damn beagles...."

Frank Zappa:

• "Jazz isn't dead, it just smells funny."

Frank Zappa:

• "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture."

Frank Zappa:

• "I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get cleaner?"

Frank Zappa:

• "You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer."

Franz Koglmann:

• "Es gibt heute kaum noch Musiker mit einer persönlichen Klangfärbung, einem eigenen Sound. Wie bei Ellington. Wir leben heute im Zeitalter der Akademisierung des Jazz, wo alle mehr oder weniger gleich klingen. Meine persönliche Meinung ist, daß die Entwicklung des Jazz mehr oder weniger abgeschlossen ist. Das heißt nicht, daß es in der Zukunft keinen Jazz mehr geben wird. Er wird partikelweise weiter existieren, kombiniert mit Elementen der klassisch-europäischen Musik, eventuell auch mit Elementen verschiedenster Folkloren. Die Jazz-Geschichte ist so abgeschlossen wie die Geschichte der abendländischen Musik von der Frühtonalität bis zur Atonalität. Diese hat der Jazz sehr schnell nachvollzogen. Jetzt sind sie beide auf dem gleichen Stand. Und wo geht's jetzt hin?"

from "Blues Brothers" movie:

• "What kind of music do you usually have here?"
  "Oh, we got both kinds. We got country AND western!"

Gandalf:

• "Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends"

Gandalf "Unfinished Tales":

• "You would not wonder, if you used this herb yourself. You might find that smoke blown out clears your mind of shadows within. And anyway, it gives patience, to listen to error without anger."
  

George Bernard Shaw:

• "Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve."

George Foreman:

• "Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it."

George Gershwin:

• "Life is a lot like jazz ... it's best when you improvise ..."

George Gershwin:

• "True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today."

Gerstenmann Butterblume:

• "Eins verdrängt das andere"

Groucho Marx:

• "Military justice is to justice what military music is to music."

Groucho Marx:

• "The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing.
  If you can fake that, you've got it made."
  

Groucho Marx:

• "I drink to make other people interesting."

Groucho Marx:

• "A child of five would understand this.
  Send someone to fetch a child of five."

Groucho Marx:

• "Seven? That many?"
  She blushed, and said, "Well, I love my husband."
  Groucho came back with,
  "I love my cigar, too, but I take it out once in a while."
  

Groucho Marx:

• "Room service? Send up a larger room."

Groucho Marx:

• "Why was I with her? She reminds me of you.
  In fact, she reminds me more of you than you do!"

Groucho Marx:

• "Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others."

H. Allen Smith:

• "The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists of 'Ten Best'."

Hans Jonas:

• "Handle so, daß die Wirkungen deiner Handlungen verträglich sind mit der Permanenz echten menschlichen Lebens auf Erden"

Hawkwind:

• "It is the business of the future to be dangerous."

Heinz Sauer:

• "Natürlich hat man es als deutscher Jazzmusiker schwer, in der Szene Anerkennung zu finden. Nicht nur dem Publikum, auch den Kritikern ist es nie so ganz geheuer, wenn ein deutscher Musiker etwas eigenständiges zustandebringt. Im tiefsten Innern meinen sie, etwas Originelles im Jazz könnte nur aus Amerika kommen. Früher war es so, und das hat sich im wesentlichen bis heute nicht geändert, daß der, der dem Klang der Amerikaner möglichst nahe ist, eher gewürdigt wird. Das ist nun mal so, und ich lasse mir deswegen keine schmalen Lippen wachsen."

Henry Spencer:

• "Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly."

Herbie Hancock:

• "A great teacher is one who realizes that he himself is also a student and whose goal is not dictate the answers, but to stimulate his students creativity enough so that they go out and find the answers themselves."

Herbie Hancock:

• "A jazz musician is not a jazz musician when he or she is eating dinner or when he or she is with his parents or spouse or neighbors.
  He's above all a human being ... the true artform is being a human being."

Ira Gershwin:

• "I never knew how good our songs were until I heard Ella sing them."

Jaco Pastorius:

• "Women and rhythm-section first!"

Jake Blues:

• "It's 106 miles to Chicago, got a full tank of gas, have a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we are wearing sunglasses.
  - HIT IT"

Jan Garbarek:

• "Es gibt Leute, die Jazz primitiv und drittklassig finden; ihnen gegenüber muß ich ihn verteidigen. Tatsache ist, daß alle Musik ihrem Ursprung nach primitv ist, denn sie ging aus der Volksmusik hervor, die ja notwendig einfach und naturhaft ist. Was ist schließlich ein Haydn-Menuett oder Beethoven-Scherzo anderes als veredelter ländlicher deutscher Tanz? "

Jim Croce:

• "But tomorrow's a dream away
  Today has turned to dust
  Your silver tongue has turned to clay
  And your golden rule to rust."

JIm Croce:

• "If I could save time in a bottle
  The first thing that I'd like to do
  Is to save every day
  Til eternity passes away
  Just to spend them with you"

Jim Croce:

• "If I had a box just for wishes
  And dreams that had never come true
  The box would be empty
  Except for the memory
  Of how they were answered by you"

Joe Williams:

• "You can't rehearse a blues, darlin'."

John Coltrane:

• "The main thing a musician would like to do is to give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things he knows of and senses in the universe."

John Coltrane:

• "You can play a shoestring if you're sincere."

John Coltrane:

• "Wenn ein Musiker einen kleinen Funken der Inspiration braucht, einen Impuls, dann muß er nur in der Nähe Monks sein, und Monk wird ihn ihm geben."

Johnny Griffin:

• "Jazz is music made by and for people who have chosen to feel good in spite of conditions."

Karl Valentin:

• "Kunst ist schön, macht aber viel Arbeit."

Keith Jarrett:

• "Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple."

Keith Richards:

• "This is not something you retire from. It's your life. Writing songs and playing is like breathing you don't stop."

Leonard Bernstein speaking of Louis Armstrong:

• "What he does is real, and true, and honest, and simple, and even noble. Every time this man puts his trumpet to his lips, even if only to practice three notes, he does it with his whole soul."

Lester Young:

• "The trouble with most musicians today is that they are copycats. Of course you have to start out playing like someone else. You have a model, or a teacher, and you learn all that he can show you.
  But then you start playing for yourself. Show them that you're an individual. And I can count those who are doing that today on the fingers of one hand."

Lester Young:

• "Originality is the thing. You can have tone and technique and a lot of other things but without originality you ain't really nowhere. Gotta be original."

Lili Tomlin:

• "We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation."

Lionel Hampton:

• "Man, as long as people want to hear jazz, I'll give it to them."

Louis Armstrong:

• "There's only two ways to sum up music; either it's good or it's bad. If it's good you don't mess about it, you just enjoy it."

Louis Armstrong:

• "If I don't practice for a day, I know it. If I don't practice for two days, the critics know it. And if I don't practice for three days, the public knows it."

Louis Armstrong:

• "The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago."

Louis Armstrong:

• "Jazz is played from the heart. You can even live by it. Always love it."

Louis Armstrong:

• "If it hadn't been for Jazz, there wouldn't be no rock and roll."

Louis Armstrong:

• "I never tried to prove nothing, just wanted to give a good show. My life has always been my music, it's always come first, but the music ain't worth nothing if you can't lay it on the public. The main thing is to live for that audience, 'cause what you're there for is to please the people."

Ludwig van Beethoven:

• "Music is a higher revelation than philosophy."

Mae West:

• "Too much of a good thing can be wonderful."

Mahalia Jackson:

• "If you don't like Louis Armstrong, you don't know how to love"

Mahalia Jackson:

• "Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yelling for help."

Mal Waldron:

• "I always play with my own feeling, but a musician has to change, otherwise he dies. I intend to keep changing until the day I die."

Mal Waldron:

• "Well, I suppose I'm a Monk kind of player. I think in terms of economy. I don't believe in playing a thousand notes when one will do. I guess I'm sort of minimalist."

Mark Twain:

• "Gott erschuf den Mann und er sah, daß er einsam war.
  Darauf erschuf Gott die Frau - da tat der Mann ihm leid und er gab ihm Tabak."

Mark Twain:

• "When you find yourself on the side of the majority,
  it is time to reform"

Mary Lou Williams:

• "During the years I was with Andy Kirk we starved almost. I remember not eating for practically a month several times. But we were very, very happy because the music was so interesting, and you forgot to eat, anyway."

Max Roach:

• "Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing of beauty."

McCoy Tyner:

• "The Coltrane quartet I was in was like four pistons in an engine. John, Elvin, Jimmy and I were all working together to make the car go."

Melvin Maddocks:

• "Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout."

Miles Davis:

• "I like Stan [Getz], because he has so much patience, the way he plays those melodies - other people can't get nothing out of a song, but he can, which takes a lot of imagination."

Miles Davis:

• "If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!"

Nat Cole:

• "When I first organized the King Cole Trio back in 1937, we were strictly what you would call an instrumental group. To break the monotony, I would sing a few songs here and there between the playing. I sang things I had known over the years. I wasn't trying to give it any special treatment, just singing. I noticed thereafter people started requesting more singing, and it was just one of those things."

New York Times, Jan. 20, 1981:

• "The confusion of a staff member is measured by the length of his memos."

Nick Belcher:

• "Playing the right note is only one fret away."

Nina Simone:

• "Music is a gift and a burden I've had since I can remember who I was."

Noelie Alito:

• "The shortest distance between two points is under construction."

Ornette Coleman:

• "Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time."

Oscar Peterson:

• "It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo. You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times.
  That's jazz."

Oscar Peterson:

• "I don't believe that a lot of the things I hear on the air today are going to be played for as long a time as Coleman Hawkins records or Brahms concertos."

Oscar Peterson:

• "Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing. I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea. I have no one style. I play as I feel."

Oscar Peterson:

• "I don't do something because I think it will sell 30 million albums. I couldn't care less. If it sells one, it sells one."

Oscar Peterson:

• "He's not a performer, he's not a composer, he's not even a musician, but Norman Granz is Mr. Jazz."

Oscar Peterson:

• "If the average jazz artist uses his head and at the outset of his career realizes he won't play as well at fifty as he does at twenty-five, he won't be in a line-up outside the Salvation Army when he's fifty."

Oscar Wilde:

• "The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself."

Pat Matheny:

• "My first relationship to any kind of musical situation is as a listener."

Pat Metheny:

• "I have to admit that more and more lately, the whole idea of jazz as an idiom is one that I've completely rejected. I just don't see it as an idiomatic thing any more ...
  To me, if jazz is anything, it's a process, and maybe a verb, but it's not a thing. It's a form that demands that you bring to it things that are valuable to you, that are personal to you.That, for me, is a pretty serious distinction that doesn't have anything to do with blues, or swing, or any of these other things that tend to be listed as essentials in order for music to be jazz with a capital J."

Pepper Adams:

• "I'm all in favor of getting grants for musicians. Or any other good brand of Scotch."

Pete Seeger:

• "Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song at the right moment could change history."

Professor Longhair:

• "The very first instrument I played was the bottom of my feet, workin' out rhythms, tap dancing. We used to dance up and down Bourbon Street."

Ray Brown:

• "Young people today are prone to take one thing at a time - usually rock and roll. If you can get their attention for jazz, then you're doing something."

Shelly Manne:

• "We never play anything the same way once."

Sixten Ivarsson:

• "Bei einer Pfeife sind 90% Physik, 10% sind Magie"

Sonny Rollins:

• "... this is my dilemma. I'm a guy who makes things up as I go along so nothing is ever finished - there are so many layers.
  So when you solo, yeah, you might get into one thing, but then, hey, everything has implications! You can hear the next level.
  And that's how I feel about improvising - there's always another level."

Stan Getz:

• "The saxophone is actually a translation of the human voice, in my conception. All you can do is play melody. No matter how complicated it gets, it’s still a melody."

Stan Getz:

• "There are four qualities essential to a great jazzman. They are taste, courage, individuality, and irreverence. These are the qualities I want to retain in my music."

Stan Getz:

• "It’s like a language. You learn the alphabet, which are the scales. You learn sentences, which are the chords. And then you talk extemporaneously with the horn. It’s a wonderful thing to speak extemporaneously, which is something I’ve never gotten the hang of. But musically I love to talk just off the top of my head. And that’s what jazz music is all about."

Stan Kenton:

• "Whenever you play dance music, it serves a function. It becomes a utility; you have to worry about the tempos and what you're going to play for people. But when you're playing for listening, you're free."

Stefan W.:

• "Wo man den Tabak setzt in Brand,
  und's glüht, das wird stets VORN genannt!
  Was zwischen Zähnen kann verschwinden,
  weils kühler ist, das nennt man HINTEN!"

Sun Ra:

• "The outer space beings are my brothers. They sent me here. They already know my music."

Thelonious Monk:

• "I say, play your own way. Don't play what the public wants. You play what you want and let the public pick up on what you're doing - even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years."

Tilly Jean:

• "What's done is done. So let's look forward for what's to come."

Tom Waits:

• "I was born the day after Leadbelly died. I'd like to think we passed in the hall."

Tony Bennett:

• "It's America's classical music ... this becomes our tradition ... the bottom line of any country in the world is what did we contribute to the world? ... we contributed Louis Armstrong"

Treebeard:

• "Don't be hasty"

Victor Hugo:

• "Die Musik drückt das aus, was nicht gesagt werden kann und worüber zu schweigen unmöglich ist."

Victor Hugo:

• "Musik drückt das aus, was nicht gesagt werden kann und worüber zu schweigen unmöglich ist."

Voltaire:

• "It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color."

Wayne Shorter:

• "I always think of music as interior decoration. So, if you have all kinds of music, you are fully decorated!"

Wilhelm Busch:

• "Dumme Gedanken hat jeder, aber der Weise verschweigt sie."

Wilhelm Busch:

• "Das Gute - dieser Satz steht fest - ist stets das Böse, was man läßt."

Wilhelm Busch:

• "Toleranz ist gut. Aber nicht gegenüber Intoleranten."

Wilhelm Busch:

• "Beim Duett sind stets zu sehn,
  zwei Mäuler, welche offen stehn."

Wilhelm Busch:

• "Musik wird oft nicht schön empfunden,
  Weil sie stets mit Geräusch verbunden."

Winston Churchill:

• "Ein leidenschaftlicher Raucher, der immer von der Gefahr des Rauchens für die Gesundheit liest, hört in den meisten Fällen auf - zu lesen."

Winston Churchill:

• A woman told Winston Churchill, "Sir, You're drunk."
  He said, "Madam, you're ugly, but tommorrow I'll be sober."

Winston Churchill:

• "In those days he was wiser than he is now -- he used to frequently take my advice."

Wolfgang Dauner:

• "Ich wollte Schluß machen mit Einschränkungen, mein Ziel war die Schaffung eines Raumklangs."

Wolfgang Dauner:

• "Musik hält frisch."

Woody Herman:

• "Musically, the bebop route was magnificent, but businesswise, it was the dumbest thing I ever did."

Wynton Marsalis:

• "As long as there is democracy, there will be people wanting to play jazz because nothing else will ever so perfectly capture the democratic process in sound. Jazz means working things out musically with other people. You have to listen to other musicians and play with them even if you don't agree with what they're playing. It teaches you the very opposite of racism and anti-Semitism. It teaches you that the world is big enough to accommodate us all."

Wynton Marsalis:

• "He (Satchmo) left an undying testimony to the human condition in the America of his time"

Yehudi Menuhin:

• Aller guten Dinge sind drei: C, E und G.

Zoot Sims:

• "I just take a tune and play it the only way I can. That's it. I don't really dwell on it very much. Some people probably do. I can only say I play it the way I feel it."

Zoot Sims:

• "We were all influenced by Lester (Young). Listen to the records that he made with Basie. Nobody's got what he's got. He's still the daddy."

Zoot Sims:

• "If I don't play for a while, it's just like getting hungry."