I don't know where jazz is going. Maybe it's going to hell. You can't make anything go anywhere. It just happens.

Whatever you think can’t be done, somebody will come along and do it. A genius is the one most like himself.

I say, play your own way. Don't play what the public want - you play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doing - even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years.

Sometimes it's to your advantage for people to think you're crazy

The loudest noise in the world is silence.

There are no wrong notes; some are just more right than others.

Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture.

Jazz is freedom. You think about that.

Don't play everything (or every time); let some things go by... What you don't play can be more important than what you do.

Jazz is my adventure. I'm after new chords, new ways of syncopating, new figures, new runs. How to use notes differently. That's it. Just using notes differently.

The only cats worth anything are the cats that take chances.

Probability theory is nothing more than common sense reduced to calculation. -1819

[talking about the race at Imola circuit] There are no small accidents on this circuit.

The real loser of our times is the one who is expected to win.

My mom and my dad never pushed me into performing. They never prohibited me from trying anything, or being anything. They never restricted me in any way. For which I'll be forever grateful.

And it is a very beautiful idea, and possibly true, that a common man from Stratford with a common education was able to write these plays.

There is always so much talk about the sins of the fathers but it is the sins of the mothers that are the most difficult to avoid repeating.

People who believe the earth was created 6000 years ago, when it's actually 4.5 billion years old, should also believe the width of North America is 8 yards. That is the scale of the error.

The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves.

Times change; years speed by; but Christmas continues sacred.

Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.