"It was by listening to Goodman's band, that I began to notice the guitarist Charlie Christian, who was one of the first musicians to play solos in a big band set-up"

"Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after"

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things"

"If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule"

"The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines"

"Big words seldom accompany good deeds"

"The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast"

"The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground"

"I was raised as a Christian but the transaction has to be made by yourself - you and God - at some point"

"Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city"

"With foxes we must play the fox"