These record companies are going to be going out of business pretty soon, because people are just going to be downloading what they want to hear.

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.

Unless you can guide the mind inward, and take the attention beyond the comprehension of mind, and directly experience life, you never reach to the ultimate truth of life.

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.

I'd like a pop-up magazine with 45 articles on Russell Crowe. I'm like a teenager. I'd have 'Teen Beat' if I could, for grown-ups.

You may hate gravity, but gravity doesn't care.

Solitude is an ocean with wonderful places hidden in its depths.

Men of God are those who walk in the fear of the Lord.

I wish being a beekeeper, which I am, gave you a free pass on the carbon footprint, but it doesn't.

Superstitions are man's way of trying to control things he has no control over.

Walk lightly on this #‎ planet and yet leave such a #‎ footprint that cannot be erased for thousands of years!

Now, I was on drugs, and that didn't help a whole lot. He hated that. That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.