"My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing"

"Ambition is not a vice of little people"

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

"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book"

"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"

"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"

"Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked"

"Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword"

"Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising"