I'm not talking ideas, or even presentation. It's like in politics: You have to sell something to become an electric player - like your skin or your heart.

The way I think about the practicing, it is my undercover work.

If you already have a piece of music ingrained in your body, why would you not play it?

If music is sound & came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound.

Creativity is what makes humanity move. We were created to participate.

I cannot say what I think is right about Music. I only know the rightness of it.

Ideally, I'd like to be the eternal novice, for then only the surprises would be endless.

I believe that a truly valuable artist must be an artist who realizes the impossibility of his task -and then continues to do it.

One thing you learn: if you want to reveal yourself, you also have to know where to stop.

Silence is the potential from which music can arise.

Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms.

A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

Most bad people are good people that don’t know how to think critically. These people become the blind weapons of a society.

All levels of ascension involve letting go of things that hold you back.

There's always something heroic and romantic about taking a stand against the powers that be.

When you feel your best, everybody else can feel it, too.

I've been screaming at the top of my lungs at my family, 'Work out! Work out! Old age is coming!'

As president, I will keep you and our country safe, secure, and free.

It took President Obama to make America lead like America again.

Whatever landscape a child is exposed to early on, that will be the sort of gauze through which he or she will see all the world afterwards.