Musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute.

The way I think about the practicing, it is my undercover work.

If you already have a piece of music ingrained in your body, why would you not play it?

If music is sound & came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound.

Creativity is what makes humanity move. We were created to participate.

I cannot say what I think is right about Music. I only know the rightness of it.

Ideally, I'd like to be the eternal novice, for then only the surprises would be endless.

I believe that a truly valuable artist must be an artist who realizes the impossibility of his task -and then continues to do it.

One thing you learn: if you want to reveal yourself, you also have to know where to stop.

Silence is the potential from which music can arise.

Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms.

Let me get this straight. You didn’t feel it would be acceptable to enter my home without permission, but taking my clothes was just fine and dandy?” -Marin

People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.

Im a huge fan of The Odd Couple, yes, and any comparisons to Tony Randall and or Jack Lemmon are completely welcome. I kind of try to channel those guys, and then add my own neuroses, too.

One cannot kick against geography!

There's a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes.

The same relation exists between merchant and pirate, who for a long period are one and the same person: where the one function appears to them inadvisable, they exercise the other.

We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up or fight like hell.

After they underestimated you, you Iraqis, now they've come on land; this attempt is our chance to incur losses on them

The second is that the role of China trade in Japanese economy, important as it is, has often been exaggerated, as proven by our experience of the past 6 years.

Christianity is the only faith whose founder died for His followers in order to enable them to escape the consequences of their sins.