I don't have a definition of Jazz. You're just supposed to know it when you hear it.

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.

The turnip cannot thrive in the tulips patch of soil.

ex-girlfriends are like car wrecks. You shouldn't want to know the details but you just do

What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.

Besides problems of traditional societies, the Caucasus has to cope with quite a few unsettled territorial conflicts that also nurture authoritarian governmental structures.

In every countrey the sun rises in the morning. [In every country the sun rises in the morning.]

When I started writing this blog more than years ago, it was in response to traditional media's habit of twisting interviews to fit the headlines they wanted to create.

You can't win integrity and honor from games. You can only earn them from living a life dedicated to those ideals.

Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken.

We are for peace, but we accept the challenge of the enemy. We will protect our motherland.

There's nothing wrong with cash. It gives you time to think.