Jazz never ends... it just continues.

Music represents nature. Nature represents life. Jazz represents nature. Jazz is life.

I think as long as people are around and can hear a record and hear people like Lester Young on a recording, there will always be a great inspiration for somebody to try to create jazz.

Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz.

No one is original. Everyone is derivative.

I think music should be judged on what it is. It should be very high and above everything else. It is a beautiful way of bringing people together, a little bit of an oasis in this messed-up world.

I feel that Jazz improvisation is the ultimate. You have to create on the spot, the essence of this music.

I miss playing with Miles. I did play with him a little while before he left the planet, but even at that time I longed to maybe do some things together.

It's all about creation and surprise. It just needs to be appreciated and watered like flowers. You have to water flowers. These peaks will come again.

I simply want to reach a level where I will never cease to make progress...so that, even on the bad evenings, I may never be bad enough to despair.

I'll know when I find the ultimate sound.

Just because you came to the end of your rope, doesn't mean that you were climbing down.

When you perceive through your senses, the object may be, of the outside world, but you see the object, inside of you, in your awareness field.

Teach us to give and not to count the cost.

There are so many people with great work ethics that I've been around. I try and take the best qualities from the people I admire and apply it to my own self.

There is the sudden. There is the eventual. And in between, there is the living.

This must be what it means to be a ghost, being certain that life exists, because your four senses say so, and yet unable to see it.

The greatest ability in the whole human race and all amongst the livingness, is the ability to help.

If you say you're not a feminist, you're almost denying your own existence.

I find comedy to be one of the highest of the art forms.

I'm swept along by larger forces out of my control.