Everybody talks about finding your voice. Do your homework and your voice will find you.

That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.

When you're dealing with music without words, titles are more a means of identification than anything else. What's the point of getting lofty?

One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community.

Pop doesn't really look back. It can't. What makes pop work is simplicity.

You don't know what you like, you like what you know. In order to know what you like, you have to know everything.

What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America.

I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.

A lot of musicians have a tough time hearing what we're doing in a trio format.

I think that if you keep banging at the door all you need is a little foothold, a little tiny foothold, and then the rest will take care of itself.

So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians.

Science is about applying what we know and asking what we don't know.

Can I wear your blazer?

You don't grow old. You get old by not growing.

Why is it only in darkness that we remember what sustained us even in the light?

When the truth is found to be lies, and all the joy within you dies.

Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.

I was sitting on the bus, and the sign said if you're ready to better your life, come to Medgar Evers College, and I got off the bus and went to Medgar Evers College.

What being home-schooled has taught me, more than anything, is what a waste of a life high school is.

The act of giving expands one's entire life experience because nothing is more fulfilling than one's capacity to give.

The wolf cares not, how many the sheep be.