The music we play is kind of hard to explain. It's music that we really feel.

Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life.

The way we look at it, everything is a sound.

Play as well as you can all the time, and if you're truthful to your thing, you'll succeed.

We're just beginning to learn the importance of music in our society.

Many times you never know what's going to happen. You'll play songs that you never thought you were going to play.

I always tell my students when you're going to be a jazz musician the first thing you've got to do is be a professional musician, and that means you have to feed yourself with the instrument.

A chord is just the name of a sound.

We just can't go and try to turn the clock back, that's not happening anymore. You've got to figure something else out.

It's just about really being sensitive, and trying to play a music that is about music.

We expect the listener to have, like, a movie going on when they hear us. That's what it's all about for us.

Imagination is the first step of creation

Poetry translation is like playing a piano sonata on a trombone.

If the way you've been treating me is a mark of fondness, maybe you'd better take a fresh look at your interpersonal communication skills.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

And if I can take part in it by transforming my own consciousness, then someone else's, I'm happy to do it.

My brother always teases me about my forehead: 'I could eat off it!'

Great wrongs have been done you, but the past is dust. The future may yet be won.

When completed, Disney's California Adventure will feel more immersive and richer. It will have more heart.

There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.

One of the hardest things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.