At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music.

Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.

The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.

Don't be afraid to expand yourself, to step out of your comfort zone. That's where the joy and the adventure lie.

You would not exist if you did not have something to bring to the table of life.

Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference.

Forget about trying to compete with someone else. Create your own pathway. Create your own new vision.

I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn.

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

The most valuable things in life are priceless. They are courage, compassion, wisdom, respect for ourselves and others, and a host of characteristics that we call the beauty of the human spirit.

Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.

To know more, read more, watch more, listen more!

A person who's going to be famous usually drops a few clues by the time they're twenty-one.

He loves nature in spite of what it did to him.

Don't start your day until you have it finished on paper first.

The still, sad music of humanity.

Every single day, I'm shocked at what I've been given the opportunity to do.

I can take hardship. I can sleep on the cold floor anytime. I can also sleep on a feather bed.

Fiction shows the external effects of internal conditions. Be aware of the tension between internal and external movement.

When you go to a movie, it's about what's not being said. I tried to bring that to Greg Sumner. It was always about what's not being said.