Everybody in all countries tries to play jazz.

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.

If you hesitate to learn from others, you will never learn anything new.

Mastery is not something that strikes in an instant, like a thunderbolt, but a gathering power that moves steadily through time, like weather.

There is no greater joy than to share what you love with those who appreciate it.

The grand leap of the whale up the Fall of Niagara is esteemed, by all who have seen it, as one of the finest spectacles in nature.

The raw food wave has swept through, and now it is the superfoods wave. The next thing to happen will be super herbalism.

Climate change isnʼt a distant threat. Itʼs already changing the way we live.

A classification is a definition comprising a system of definitions.

A language is the appearances of connections therefore language as in writing doesn't express anything: it creates.

We are working hard to build a service that everyone, everywhere can use, whether they are a person, a company, a president or an organisation working for change

NEA includes most bizarre & extreme misuse of tax funds.