Jazz is so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself.

That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.

When you're dealing with music without words, titles are more a means of identification than anything else. What's the point of getting lofty?

One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community.

Pop doesn't really look back. It can't. What makes pop work is simplicity.

You don't know what you like, you like what you know. In order to know what you like, you have to know everything.

What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America.

I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.

A lot of musicians have a tough time hearing what we're doing in a trio format.

I think that if you keep banging at the door all you need is a little foothold, a little tiny foothold, and then the rest will take care of itself.

So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians.

Life is like a game, there could be many players. If you don't play with them, they'll play with you.

Don't dream of being a good person, be a human being is valuable and gives value to life.

I'm an anxious person. What I like best is to smoke cigarettes and listen to music. A perfect day for me is a day with coffee, cigarettes, and music, to quote Jim Jarmusch.

He is able to help His children work through anything, and not a single thing is going to happen in the future that can change that fact.

When you do not have the basic requirements for survival and safety and belongingness and where there are huge inequities then fear turns into hatred.

I'm a big believer in always challenging yourself and learning new skills.

I think the Playboy philosophy is very, very connected to the American dream.

The power to define the situation is the ultimate power.

Satyagraha can rid society of all evils, political, economic and moral.

Whatever you're going through in your life, don't ever give up.