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.

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

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.

All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.

Success without a successor is a failure

Be careful to be gentle, lest in removing the rust, you break the whole instrument.

Life's great moments evolve from simples acts of cooperation with God's mysterious promptings.

The only rules not meant to be broken are those of love and virtue.

With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless.

I'm training two-and-a-half hours a day, pushing my body beyond its normal limits, putting on a lot of muscle mass and just making myself look like Superman.

I don't want no better book than what your face is.

I was so nervous before going out there

I think Arminianism is death to Christianity!

It [what you choose to do] has got to be something that you're passionate about because otherwise you won't have the perseverance to see it through.