Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Know or listen to those who know.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Never complain and never explain.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
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.