Jazz Improvisation means that practice is not as straightforward as it would be when you simply have a score to play.

I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I am always seeking.

Many fail to realize this great recording industry was built by so-called jazz artists. And at the other end of the spectrum, a base in European classical music as well.

The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people are gonna say about your life and your work.

You've got a big, big problem if you get caught up in what people say. If you're gonna live for what people say, you might as well lay down and forget it. Because it doesn't work that way.

I have looked to the Steinway piano since I was three, not only as my ideal choice of an instrument. But, as a responsive and ever reliable friend.

Mr. McVicker instilled self-respect in those of us who were his students, because he respected us regardless of our background.

I write. See you there.

I wanted love to conquer all. But love can't conquer anything.

An ideal scientist thinks like a poet and only later works like a book-keeper.

Writers are explorers who find new worlds and use words to bring them to our reality.

I felt pressured by continuous touring.

There's a lot of great stuff on TV.

The United States will have the honour of proving experimentally, that true policy goes hand in hand with moderation and humanity.

They always say to Californians that we don't have seasons. Of course, that is not true. We have fire, flood, mud and drought.

Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.

It takes no courage to say or do what's popular.