Learn to play the piano, man, and then you can figure out crazy solos of your own.

As a musician you have to keep one foot back in the past and have one foot forward into the future.

I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.

Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that.

It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.

One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.

You can't steal a gift. Bird [Charlie Parker] gave the world his music, and if you can hear it you can have it.

I try to play the bare essence, to let everything be just what it's supposed to be.

The sign of a mature musician is knowing what not to play.

There have been two great revelations in my life: The first was bepop, the second was homeopathy.

Where there's no mutual respect, there's trouble!

I like to see the glass as half full, hopefully of jack daniels.

Wishing and trying aren’t faith. True faith must be present in order to give substance to your hope.

Family is not an important thing, it's everything.

I would never advise shooing away a good idea.

The unprepared mind cannot see the outstretched hand of opportunity.

Our identity includes our natural world, how we move through it, how we interact with it and how it sustains us.

No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.

So long as you are in this world, be not surprised at the existence of sorrows.

Slander is the balm of malignity.

There's way too much pain in this business for anyone who doesn't HAVE to write.