If you really understand the meaning of be-bop, you understand the meaning of freedom.

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.

He stood on the ice, his teeth chattering in the cold, a cold that seemed to come not from the lake water or icy wind, but from a direct transmission from outer space.

There is a magical dream that fills the gap between birth and death

To control your life, control your mind. To control your mind, control your breath.

In Hawaii, we have something called Ho'oponopono, where people come together to resolve crises and restore peace and balance.

Events, once happened, lose reality, alter with a glance, a storm, a night. In time, the past never happened. But who could know? Who could know that the past is not as solid as this instant.

You just get injured more often. You take time off, you come back, you get injured again and you never get in shape.

I don't feel at home in New Orleans. I don't feel at home in Austin or L.A. And I just felt immediately at home in northern Australia.

... the space left to freedom is very small.ends are inherent in human nature and the same for all.

Democracy is the absolute value that makes for human dignity, as well as the only road to sustained economic development and social justice.

You're innocent when you dream.