It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.

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.

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.

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

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.

The burning lamp is found in reading books.

Miss can I get a second to speak and quietly mention, That I am so into who you are, can I get your attention?

It will bring you light even among the darkest shadows of this world and others

I take the Bible literally, but not seriously.

The only force strong enough to save our country is us.

If you want to be liberated, if you choose to be what I am, then you've chosen freedom. You can do this.

The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.

My misfortune is my ability to see both sides even of the fundamental religious question.

We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.

Miscommunication leads to complication.