It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me.

Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians.

Jazz is about the only form of art existing today in which there is freedom of the individual without the loss of group contact.

Damn it, when I'm bombastic, I have my reasons. I want to be bombastic-take it or leave it.

Kinship doesn't come from skin color. It's in your soul and your mind.

The secret of a great melody is a secret.

I'm always hoping for the nights that are inspired where you almost have an out of body experience

Jazz is about freedom within discipline.

Don't be a perfectionist... leave that to the classical musicians.

We don't know the power that's within our own bodies

Every individual should be expressing themselves, whether a politician or a minister or a policeman.

Freedom only exists in the choice. When you don't have the choice you are not free.

The little things are infinitely the most important.

The crossroads of science and politics is a dodgy place.

I always found the appeal to the market gods a bit odd. Why would the market fix mistakes instead of aggravating them?

There are occasions when the general belief of the people, even though it be groundless, works its effect as sure as truth itself.

It's always judged on funny first, then the facts, and the realism, and the points that you're trying to make.

The sum of the parts equals less than the whole. Or the howl. Or the how. Or the hole.

It's not fair. It's not. But then, that's the game. It makes life great. The fact that it ends when we don't want it to. The ending gives it meaning.

People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.

Often the wicked prosper, while the righteous starve; yet I would never exchange my state for theirs, my virtue for their gold. For mine endures, while riches change their owner every day.