I've made more than 50 records with a wide range of music. I've often veered to check something out.

Improvising musicians are musical travelers, voyagers. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape.

It keeps me in touch with younger musicians who are constantly saying, 'Have you heard this new artist, or this new guitar player?' It keeps you reaching.

It hasn't been hard getting nominated, but winning it is another thing. The competition is tough.

Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with all their spare time. That's traditionally how people learn.

I think I always have been someone who likes to push at the edges of things, looking for something different.

I've discovered all kinds of music and done all kinds of music over the past 40 years, from playing tango with Piazzolla to all the different bands I've had.

I was surprised when I finally moved to Boston and the East Coast, to discover that there weren't that many vibraphone players around. And I was the only one playing with four mallets.

I was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played, generally, four note chords, the top four strings of the guitar.

I know of musicians who have played together for decades who hate each other. The Modern Jazz Quartet for one.

But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, theres a huge range of dynamics and colors and emotional expression thats possible with the instrument.

Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh!" he whispered."Yes, Piglet?""Nothing, " said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you.

This is what she hated about hot guys. That warm and fuzzy feeling she got when one of them anointed her as worthy.

If you don't take chances you can't do anything in life.

A theory that denies that thoughts can regulate actions does not lend itself readily to the explanation of complex human behavior.

I have a suicide impulse.

You've got your hands full if you have three children under 2 years old.

The one pleasure that never palls is the pleasure of not going to church.

I love Texas because Texas is future-oriented, because Texans think anything is possible. Texans think big

And, while it was regarded as pretty good evidence of criminality to be living in a slum, for some reason owning a whole street of them merely got you invited to the very best social occasions.

There is only one principle of war and that's this. Hit the other fellow, as quickly as you can, as hard as you can, where it hurts him most, when he ain't lookin'.