Jazz is about the only form of art existing today in which there is freedom of the individual without the loss of group contact.

Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians.

Damn it, when I'm bombastic, I have my reasons. I want to be bombastic-take it or leave it.

Kinship doesn't come from skin color. It's in your soul and your mind.

It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me.

The secret of a great melody is a secret.

I'm always hoping for the nights that are inspired where you almost have an out of body experience

Jazz is about freedom within discipline.

Don't be a perfectionist... leave that to the classical musicians.

We don't know the power that's within our own bodies

Every individual should be expressing themselves, whether a politician or a minister or a policeman.

Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house.

I'm one of those people who really likes to do my research.

I get no kick from champagne. Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all. So, tell me why should it be true, that I get a kick out of you?

Happiness is not at the top of the mountain, but in how to climb.

It often takes more courage to be a passenger than a driver.

It's really up to me to speed up my learning curve as a player so I can contribute in a much bigger way night in and night out.

People think I'm smarter than I am.

We need more than new policies. We need a new worldview, and a new bottom line. We need to replace economic values as our ordering principle, with humanitarian values as our ordering principle.

Libraries: Here is where people, one frequently finds, lower their voices, and raise their minds.

You can run a sprint or your can run a marathon, but you can't sprint a marathon.