I can't even tolerate my own playing on electric keyboards. It's not about the musical ideas - the sound itself is toxic. It's like eating plastic broccoli.

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.

The deep love that is born of friendship can too easily become stagnant when life becomes busy.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and use it to hang your troubles.

For me to see is to read. It has always been that way.

He made time travel sound almost like hide-and-seek or capture the flag or some other spylike game--only with higher stakes and greater consequences.

Just go up to somebody on the street and say 'You're it!' and then run away.

One can no more look steadily at death than at the sun.

The fire doesn't make you what you are; it reveals what you were.

Right education should help the student, not only to develop his capacities, but to understand his own highest interest.

Playing for Billy Martin is like being married to him. Right now, we're all sleeping on the couch.

Solidarity among the male and female workers, a general cause, general goals, a general path to that goal - that is the solution to the "woman" question in the working-class environment.