Music appeals to me for what can be done with it.

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

I simply make music, and people have always been foolish enough to pay me for it. I never told them that I would have done it all for nothing.

Conscience is that which hurts when everything else feels marvelous.

The highest reaches of music come thrillingly close to the central core and essence of life itself.

As a boy I remember how terribly real the statues of the saints would seem at 7 o'clock Mass-before I'd had breakfast. From that I learned always to conduct hungry.

On matters of intonation and technicalities I am more than a martinet - I am a martinetissimo.

Friendships sail like any other ship... left unattended, it will drift away" - Sensei Stokes

The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

I love bad boys. They're the most fun to play.

the distance between this pigeon's brain and mine is minute compared to that between mine and Bodhi 's Wisdom Compassion

There are a group of people who are managing the world to their advantage and who just look to the rest of us as people who will buy their products and fund their salaries.

It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something.

Milk is about helping guys feel good about their skin and relaxed about taking care of it.

I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which I created for myself.

Every student has the ability to be a successful learner.