These people are interested in a wide variety of music, and that's what we're into.

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.

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

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

Soulmates don’t choose each other

Affliction is a good man's shining time.

One can get just as much exultation in losing oneself in a little thing as in a big thing. It is nice to think how one can be recklessly lost in a daisy.

I'm not a performer, in that I don't like the public, but I work in that respect.

It took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over.

I never missed a putt in my mind.

Your excuses are nothing more than the lies your fears have sold you.

Love without friendship is like a kite, aloft only when the winds are favorable. Friendship is what gives love its wings.

I've got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists. Neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things as they are.

I tend to not try and listen to a lot of other artists while I'm writing, because if I hear something that's brilliant.