I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.

As a musician you have to keep one foot back in the past and have one foot forward into the future.

Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that.

It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.

One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.

You can't steal a gift. Bird [Charlie Parker] gave the world his music, and if you can hear it you can have it.

I try to play the bare essence, to let everything be just what it's supposed to be.

The sign of a mature musician is knowing what not to play.

There have been two great revelations in my life: The first was bepop, the second was homeopathy.

Where there's no mutual respect, there's trouble!

Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for your magnificent indifference.

Keats was getting a reputation just when he was too ill to appreciate it or build on it: his country was taking notice of him just when he would have to leave it.

Math is the language of the head, music is the language of the heart. Of the two, it is music that speaks the most truth.

Nothing mitigates the throes of depression like a steaming plate of spaghetti and meatballs with marinara sauce and grated parmasan cheese, with a good fresh bread to wipe up.

I have found so many angels trapped inside undisputed jargon that I find myself digging at the words, in order to release them, from the books that unfairly captured their soul.

I was used to being the smartest guy in the room, and then God dropped me in a place that was well beyond me. It was painfully awesome.

While I am rehearsing a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.

We have ploughed the vast ocean in a fragile bark.

Unknown objects are operating under intelligent control... It is imperative that we learn where UFOs come from and what their purpose is.

I like singing in the street, so if you saw a little Indian kid walking on the street singing loudly, that was probably me.