It's just about really being sensitive, and trying to play a music that is about music.

Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life.

The way we look at it, everything is a sound.

Play as well as you can all the time, and if you're truthful to your thing, you'll succeed.

We're just beginning to learn the importance of music in our society.

Many times you never know what's going to happen. You'll play songs that you never thought you were going to play.

I always tell my students when you're going to be a jazz musician the first thing you've got to do is be a professional musician, and that means you have to feed yourself with the instrument.

A chord is just the name of a sound.

We just can't go and try to turn the clock back, that's not happening anymore. You've got to figure something else out.

The music we play is kind of hard to explain. It's music that we really feel.

We expect the listener to have, like, a movie going on when they hear us. That's what it's all about for us.

Peace hath higher tests of manhood Than battle ever knew.

The skull is nature's sculpture.

True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.

I wouldn't call that an instrument of music," Ragnor observed sourly. "An instrument of torture, perhaps.

Im afraid of needles, except acupuncture needles.

If it isn't bolted down, bring it home.

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment; Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self needs strength.

People get very deep experiences and they think they're enlightened. That's not enlightenment, that's just some realization.

One tip is to try and give your hair some time to relax. Don't over wash or over dry it.