Clark Terry

Your sound is you and what you really feel inside.

One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn’t do.

In life you have three options with any situation that is a challenge. Remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it.

This morning I woke with my ear pressed between shoulder blades. Every inhale, every drum, every pump, thump of your heartbeat said one thing – home, home, home.

[Moving to the West] was a culture shock. I had never seen cereal before! We had cottage cheese and pancakes in Russia, not colorful circles that came in cardboard boxes.

If only I had known then the speed with which she could die, maybe I wouldn’t have become the hemlock.

It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.

We want to reproduce all those instruments which were prepared and used in America once upon a time.

I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

But I do know there are not enough syllables to spell out how much I love you. I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love… You are my every moment, my every hour, my every day, my every season, and I know this isn’t poetry and it’s certainly not a haiku, it’s just all the things I needed to say to you.

Here I am alive, and it’s not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over.

You are writing your children’s future with your answers.

We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.