After two takes you're imitating yourself.

Whatever you think can’t be done, somebody will come along and do it. A genius is the one most like himself.

I say, play your own way. Don't play what the public want - you play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doing - even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years.

Sometimes it's to your advantage for people to think you're crazy

The loudest noise in the world is silence.

There are no wrong notes; some are just more right than others.

Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture.

Jazz is freedom. You think about that.

Don't play everything (or every time); let some things go by... What you don't play can be more important than what you do.

Jazz is my adventure. I'm after new chords, new ways of syncopating, new figures, new runs. How to use notes differently. That's it. Just using notes differently.

The only cats worth anything are the cats that take chances.

I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.

The beautiful thing about encouragement is that anybody can do it.

If a woman is into me, it usually takes me awhile to figure that out. She has to hit me over the head with it.

Our attitude can turn our problems into blessings.

Romance is the icing but love is the cake.

You are not going to waltz in here and distract me with a clever phrase and a beguiling smile." "You think my smile is beguiling?

History is the lies of the victors.

In a democracy, the most important office is the office of citizen

I approach every problem with optimism.

Going back is a nice way to give definition to each of the characters because they are so vastly different. I would never want them to get blended together.