It keeps me in touch with younger musicians who are constantly saying, 'Have you heard this new artist, or this new guitar player?' It keeps you reaching.

Improvising musicians are musical travelers, voyagers. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape.

I've made more than 50 records with a wide range of music. I've often veered to check something out.

It hasn't been hard getting nominated, but winning it is another thing. The competition is tough.

Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with all their spare time. That's traditionally how people learn.

I think I always have been someone who likes to push at the edges of things, looking for something different.

I've discovered all kinds of music and done all kinds of music over the past 40 years, from playing tango with Piazzolla to all the different bands I've had.

I was surprised when I finally moved to Boston and the East Coast, to discover that there weren't that many vibraphone players around. And I was the only one playing with four mallets.

I was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played, generally, four note chords, the top four strings of the guitar.

I know of musicians who have played together for decades who hate each other. The Modern Jazz Quartet for one.

But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, theres a huge range of dynamics and colors and emotional expression thats possible with the instrument.

The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states - Israel Athens Florence Elizabethan England.

Mission creep is not unique to Congress. It is endemic to all arms of the federal government.

The privileged classes can afford psychoanalysis and whiskey. Whereas all we get is sermons and sour wine. This is manifestly unfair. I protest, silently.

If ever I want to amuse myself with an idiot, I have not far to look for one. I laugh at myself.

We should try to keep our mothers in the home and that's where the whole Reform platform hangs together.

There are some feelings time cannot benumb, Nor torture shake.

The title of that great Christmas song was 'Boogie Woogie Santa Claus,' and no one ever heard of it.

For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom.

Innovation is not born from the dream, innovation is born from the struggle

Dwelling on pain, spending too much time immersed in it, tasting its flavors, fingering its textures--this makes it only more potent.