I searched through rebellion drugs diets mysticism religions intellectu-alism and much more only to begin to find ... that truth is basically simple-and feels good clean and right.

My one thing is I continue to be interested and want to be a student. I don't want to be a master. When I'm learning something, I'm in my element.

I searched through rebellion, drugs, diet, mysticism, religion, intellectualism and much more, only to begin to find that truth is basically simple and feels good, clear and right.

I no longer wanted to satisfy myself. I really want to connect with the world and make my music mean something to people.

You've got to create the space, then fill it.

Without a doubt, my richest relationships are my long-term friendships with musical partners, because we make music together. That's what we love to do with our lives.

Only a spiritual being has awareness.

I got a chance to listen to and watch Thelonious Monk and his quartet play two shows a night, for six weeks. It was a great education. There was my university, man.

It's one thing to just play a tune, or play a program of music, but it's another thing to practically create a new language of music, which is what 'Kind of Blue' did.

I decided that I didn't want to spend my time in a liberal arts college.

I've noticed that the more adventurous and in that mode that I am, it seems that the more the audience really likes it.

Introspection is not a privilege, you don't have to subscribe to it. On any occasion you can discover wisdom and oneself.

The presuming social view that mental health is not as serious as the media says it is, blocks progress. This too is political.

We're all just people...We all have things we deal with, but it's all right. We always muddle through.

Can the synthesis of man and machine ever be stable, or will the purely organic component become such a hindrance that it has to be discarded?

Be a good human being, a warmhearted, affectionate person. That is my fundamental belief.

Of course people take something good and turn it negative.

Happiness comes out of contentment, and contentment always comes out of service.

When there's no more room under the Christmas tree, Ken Foree will have a birthday.

I'm more influenced by my own interests than anyone else's. Writers have to entertain themselves, or they can't entertain anyone else