Jazz is my adventure.

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.

I’m beginning to wish I’d had you deported after the first murder! Death seems to follow you around like the plague.

Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.

I cannot think who my residents hurt but how I can give them tools to remain on the right side of civilization.

The House of Commons starts its proceedings with a prayer. The chaplain looks at the assembled members with their varied intelligence and then prays for the country.

Psychiatric diagnosis still relies exclusively on fallible subjective judgments rather than objective biological tests.

Criticized for using formal mathematical manipulations, without understanding how they worked: Should I refuse a good dinner simply because I do not understand the process of digestion?

Move every day. Like taking a shower and brushing your teeth. Make it a part of your everyday life.

Lay hold of today's task, and you will not depend so much upon tomorrow's.

The moon shines bright. In such a night as this. When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees and they did make no noise, in such a night.