It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.

Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.

When I have them working together, it's like a beautiful kaleidoscope.

For me, being an innovator doesn't mean being more intelligent, more rich, it's not a word, it's an action.

The idea is more important than the style you're playing in.

You don't have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don't have anything to do with placement. Numbers only have something to do with repetition.

I don't try to please when I play. I try to cure.

Music has many uses and I think the most perfected use that music has is one of a healing quality.

Whatever you do, it's over when you do it - but first you have to do it.

We in the Western world suffer from too many categories and classes; we've forgotten that we all still have diapers on. We've separated music from life.

You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.

A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.

People do not come to hear what I have to say—they want to know what God has to say.

They should be taking bonuses from bankers, not library books from schoolchildren. What kind of society are we building?

People join organizations, they leave managers.

And I love to cook! I've impressed hundreds of women with my cooking. And they always come back for more.

The enemy of a tree is not only the enemy of humanity, but also the enemy of all the living beings!

Do I really believe that? I make a mark, a few strokes, I argue with myself, not do I like or not, but is it true or not? Is that what I mean, is that what I want?

No one is able to enjoy such feast than the one who throws a party in his own mind.

You're the one who has to live with your choice, everyone else will get over it, move on, no matter what you decide. But you never will