As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something thats never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish.

The bass, no matter what kind of music you're playing, it just enhances the sound and makes everything sound more beautiful and full. When the bass stops, the bottom kind of drops out of everything.

You have to see your unimportance before you can see your importance and your significance to the world.

If you strive to become a good human being with the qualities of generosity, humility and having reverence for life...just maybe you'll become a great musician.

In the midst of creating, a person is raised to another level of consciousness that doesn't have that much to do with everyday thinking. It's as if you could imagine life before there were words.

Creative Arts raise a person to another level of consciousness as if you could imagine life before words.

I just try to play music from my heart and bring as much beauty as I can to as many people as I can. Just give them other alternatives, especially people who arent exposed to creative music.

I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them.

Chris (Anderson) is risking his life with every chord, that's how much it means to him. He has such a reverence for beauty, he plays like an angel.

Before music there was silence and the duet format allows you to build from the silence in a very special way.

I just see myself as a human being that's concerned about life.

The more you mature, you realize that this imperfections make your more beautiful.

It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be.

In this world, where we find ourselves, we need compassion more than anything, I think, or we are all alone.

I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that advice to grandchildren is usually wasted.

Hair is just one way of expressing ourselves. We express ourselves through how we dress or through tattoos or body art or piercings or cosmetic surgery.

Those who can do. Those who can't form a supercommittee.

I'd like to marry you, if you think that would be okay.

It's cold out there, colder than a ticket taker's smile at the Ivar Theatre on a Saturday night.

I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.

I don't think about the real future very much.