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

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?

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.

If a person plays dissonance long enough, it will sound like consonance. It's a language that was alien and then it's less and less alien as it continues to live.

Use love as the only instrument to question the world around you.

It seemed to me a matter of course that we should all take our share of the burden of pain which lies upon the world.

What can I do today to take a step forward?

Photography can be perceived as the opposite of war.

I think the idea that women can stand up and be strong and still be seen as beautiful and sexual is kind of cool, and I would like to see more of that.

Artists lead unglamorous daily lives of discipline and routine, but their work is full of passion. Each has a vision and feels responsibility to that vision.

The moment that he begins to walk along it, the warrior of the light recognizes the path.

The deepest cry of the human heart is to be loved without condition, no matter what. The gospel of grace announces that you are.

The success of the dinner depends as much upon the company as the cook. Discordant elements - people invited alphabetically, or to pay off debts - are fatal.

Never increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything.