"A little is fine, but the minute you start believing that you've picked the only right one out of the 4,200 or so on offer, you need to get a grip on yourself. Once you start thinking that it's okay to hate someone that chose one of the 4,199 others... snap out of it."

“At eighty-two, I feel like a twenty-year-old, but, unfortunately, there's never one around.”

“To die, and thus avoid poverty or love, or anything painful, is not the part of a brave man, but rather of a coward; for it is cowardice to avoid trouble, and the suicide does not undergo death because it is honorable, but in order to avoid evil.”

“Somehow or other I always got myself rigged up in something sensational.”

“I never trust a man that doesn't drink.”

“I can't just only be on reality TV and show everything when it's the fairy princess, fairytale, and then not take my hits when I have to.”

“But I've come to the point in my evolution on the instrument where I realize that I can't play the same stuff that just a guitar player or organ player would play - and I need to embrace that in a big way.”

Source : "Charlie Hunter: Living The Music". Interview with Paul Olson, www.allaboutjazz.com. September 26, 2005.

“China tennis - we're getting bigger and bigger.”

“John Kerry now getting slammed by the Republicans because of a botched joke he did about President Bush and Iraq in a recent speech. Kerry was stunned about this. He said, 'What? People are listening to my speeches?'”