Music has many uses and I think the most perfected use that music has is one of a healing quality.

It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.

Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.

When I have them working together, it's like a beautiful kaleidoscope.

For me, being an innovator doesn't mean being more intelligent, more rich, it's not a word, it's an action.

The idea is more important than the style you're playing in.

You don't have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don't have anything to do with placement. Numbers only have something to do with repetition.

I don't try to please when I play. I try to cure.

Whatever you do, it's over when you do it - but first you have to do it.

We in the Western world suffer from too many categories and classes; we've forgotten that we all still have diapers on. We've separated music from life.

You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.

People are like animals. Some are happiest penned in, some need to roam free. You go to recognize what's in her nature and accept it.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

None of the constitutional, legal or other principles bars me from returning to the judiciary, since the judiciary remains independent if the actors remain independent and fair.

Well I thought my razor was dull until I heard his speech, and that reminds me of a story that's so dirty I'm ashamed to think of it myself.

It was really tough to race the GS a day after the downhill, but that's over now. I'm looking forward for the rest of the season which is also quite interesting.

To be a statesman, you must first get elected.

In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it.

What church could compete with the fireworks of the pure soul?

To green our country, regular people will have to put on hard hats and work boots, roll up their sleeves - and get to work.

I like people who can and like to make fun of themselves!