Clark Terry

Your sound is you and what you really feel inside.

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

This ain’t my first rodeo son!

Most fashionable commodity in US is going to be old-fashioned common sense and work.

Credulity is the man’s weakness but the child’s strength.

To me, you’ll always be the rising suns, the sinking moons, and all the stars that come between the sound of rain and river stones, the warmth of my sheets, the ache in my bones.

Life on the road is murder. It’s as though life begins and ends with your horn in your mouth.

They ask me how I love you and I say in pages, in novels, in volumes. I love you like my favorite story, the one that I wake up to every day and watch unfold. And I don’t know how it ends, but I know your name is already written in the chapters of my life that I have yet to live.

You don’t need a pack of wild horses to learn how to make a sandwich.

Wagon Train was on. It seemed to be beaming in from some foreign country. I shut that off, too, and went into another room, a windowless one with a painted door – a dark cavern with a floor-to-ceiling library. I switched on the lamps. The place had an overpowering presence of literature and you couldn’t help but lose your passion for dumbness.

When you have the right script for your life, you will always be the star of the show.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here to be where she was.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

People create their own experiences.

Do you realize if it weren’t for Edison we’d be watching TV by candlelight?