I am a romantic, I admit it.

The way I think about the practicing, it is my undercover work.

If you already have a piece of music ingrained in your body, why would you not play it?

If music is sound & came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound.

Creativity is what makes humanity move. We were created to participate.

I cannot say what I think is right about Music. I only know the rightness of it.

Ideally, I'd like to be the eternal novice, for then only the surprises would be endless.

I believe that a truly valuable artist must be an artist who realizes the impossibility of his task -and then continues to do it.

One thing you learn: if you want to reveal yourself, you also have to know where to stop.

Silence is the potential from which music can arise.

Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms.

Quality, relevant content can't be spotted by an algorithm. You can't subscribe to it. You need people - actual human beings - to create or curate it.

That is fundamentally the only courage which is demanded of us: to be brave in the face of the strangest, most singular and most inexplicable things that can befall us

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

If you look very intensely and slowly things will happen that you never dreamed of before.

Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.

As my name might suggest, I'm Jewish. My grandparents were Polish and Russian Jews who came to Australia in the late 1920s, and had they not, we wouldn't be talking now.

We grant God the possession of all the qualities of mind except the one that keeps the others healthy; that watches over their dignity; that focuses their vision true--humor.

By investing at a discount, Benjamin Graham knew that he was unlikely to experience losses.

The word " philosophy " carries unfortunate connotations: impractical, unworldly, weird.

The gulf between the information we proclaim & the information we know to be true is vast. In other words: we say one thing & do another.