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

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

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

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.

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.

To become a better you, secure your dreams from the jaws of people who discredit your ambitions.

One’s love for his country is a very sacred emotion that is intertwined with their sense of moral obligation and is an essential part of one’s identity.

Character is greatness inside out.

When you have robbed a man of everything he is no longer in your power. He is free again.

With people in high office, the old - you go into the extreme, which is absolute power and absolute power corrupts.

In a world of commoditized knowledge, the returns go to the companies who can produce non-standard knowledge.

A book has to be easy to open and you don't have to be a bodybuilder to lift it. I like books I can read in bed. Those big tombstones would kill me.

And much as I enjoy writing and creating stuff, I don't enjoy it so much that I am willing to give up any time that could otherwise be spent performing.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil.