When you're dealing with music without words, titles are more a means of identification than anything else. What's the point of getting lofty?

That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.

One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community.

Pop doesn't really look back. It can't. What makes pop work is simplicity.

You don't know what you like, you like what you know. In order to know what you like, you have to know everything.

What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America.

I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.

A lot of musicians have a tough time hearing what we're doing in a trio format.

I think that if you keep banging at the door all you need is a little foothold, a little tiny foothold, and then the rest will take care of itself.

So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians.

Coltrane came to New Orleans one day and he was talking about the jazz scene. And Coltrane mentions that the problem with jazz was that there were too few groups.

Swimming the ocean a giant brain watches us.

Loneliness was a full-body sensation, an anti-exhilaration, from his core outward.

...it has been demonstrated through years of workshops that the Artist Within tends to make the same mistakes as the artist within everybody else.

The activities we do for God are secondary. God is looking for people who long for communication with Him.

We see facts with our eyes; we see ideas with our minds; we see ideals with our souls. Whatever we see with our souls is real and permanent and cannot be destroyed.

Great acting is about listening to what they are saying ....not waiting to deliver your lines.

People think I must have been so talented at an early age, but I don't know - was it talent or hard work? Who knows?

There needs not strength to be added to inviolate chastity; the excellency of the mind makes the body impregnable.

You have no idea if your idea matters until you share it.

Do more than dream. Work.