I don't believe music can be free unless it has something to be free from.

My brother had a big band in high school; after that we continued to play together, eventually forming a group called the Jazz Brothers, that recorded for Riverside Records.

Music is meant to be a beautiful thing.

I write music people enjoy playing and listening to, and I have a group that loves playing the music.

I tend to not want to put labels or categories on the music, only because people come with preconceived ideas about what they're going to hear, or won't come for this reason.

I was blessed to work with The Jazz Messengers when the two piano players were Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea.

A studio recording is perfection, but emotion and passion come only when you turn on the machine and go for the groove. If you do that with no mistakes, it sounds beautiful.

Whether it's string writing or whatever, I try to write for what each instrumentalist can do best.

I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people.

1972 was a year of many pleasant and rewarding experiences for me

Brazilian music has many of the ingredients that I strive for in my own music: Strong melodies and a disciplined but intense rhythmic concept, and interesting harmonies.

We know The wheel of time moves on New bonds, new ties ignite Moments fleet, memories drift, shadows glide There is always a hope At the horizon we seek.

With hope in your heart, endure the hardship.

If the sun needed friends to shine, it would not rule the sky alone.

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

You want to be understood by the sophisticated few but you also have to be more loud somehow, otherwise your message doesn't go through.

Jonas Brothers fans are a force to be reckoned with.

“If I had been on 'Bowling for Dollars,' I'd wind up owing them money.”

The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.

I think God gave every one of us a cell phone, we just dropped it.

You can't be striving to please; you must be striving to get to the heart of the matter.