Experiment is actually doing the art. That's the experiment and then you get to experience the experiment.

Jazz is like a big secret club. The mainstream media doesn't pay any attention to it, it's like 1 percent of the music market - no one cares. Why? Because the majority of jazz is old.

Jazz is a state of mind. There's no boundaries.

When I hear the words jazz pianist, that just means I have the skills to do most things. Because to be a jazz pianist, even to be a bad jazz pianist, you have to be pretty good.

I think there's good music out there. I just think that radio stations don't play it.

There is a modern take on certain things you can do that, to me, is still jazz.

I grew up in church. That's how most young African American musicians learn how to perform. You could be six years old and playing organ or drums in front of thousands or hundreds of people.

A lot of times, jazz musicians try to educate people. What other genre does that?

I'm not really married to the craft of jazz - I'm married to me, and my style, and whatever I produce.

If you really dissect hip-hop you will find a whole lot of Charles Mingus, Ron Carter, Ahmad Jamal, a lot of classic jazz samples in there.

"Cannonball Adderley said, 'First 20 minutes we'll jazz out, then the last hour it's gonna be songs that people paid to see.' Which is why he was driving a Rolls-Royce."

Suspense doesn’t always have to be about physical danger. Making the reader worry is a universal concept that can be applied to any story.

Truth is the lie you once told returning to haunt you

What we do upon some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are: and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.

The girl's lover was gone, but his shadow was still there.

This isn't a man who is leaving with his head between his legs.

When I read something, I want to be surprised. So I read something and go, "Wow, I never, ever would have thought of playing this kind of role. This is exciting me, let's go do this."

There is no snooze button on life - Tara Daniels

Hard work can't be ignored forever.

I have long been convinced that my artistic ideal stands or falls with Germany. Only the Germany that we love and desire can help us achieve that ideal.

Prayer is not a painful effort to gain from God help in the varying needs of life. Prayer is the desire to possess God Himself