I think you have to be completely merciless with yourself.

The way I think about the practicing, it is my undercover work.

If you already have a piece of music ingrained in your body, why would you not play it?

If music is sound & came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound.

Creativity is what makes humanity move. We were created to participate.

I cannot say what I think is right about Music. I only know the rightness of it.

Ideally, I'd like to be the eternal novice, for then only the surprises would be endless.

I believe that a truly valuable artist must be an artist who realizes the impossibility of his task -and then continues to do it.

One thing you learn: if you want to reveal yourself, you also have to know where to stop.

Silence is the potential from which music can arise.

Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

One thing I've learned is that in the midst of your darkest moments of tribulation, there is no such thing as mass friends.

Some people never say the words ‘I love you’, for like a child they’re longing to be told.

You play the game to the end. That’s how it works

The middle years caught between children and parents free of neither: the past stretches back too densely it is too thickly populated the future has not yet thinned out.

It is by acts, and not by ideas, that people ensure the bar down the street cannot have a patio.

When life hands you lemons - SQUAT! Squats make everything better. And if squats don't, bacon will

It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.

Every life is complicated, every mind a kingdom of unmapped mysteries.

The wrongs of a Husband or Master are not reproached.