Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music.

Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized.

Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media.

Its all about finding the right note at the right place and knowing when to leave well enough alone. And that's a lifelong quest.

I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there. That's the process.

Music is just kind of an expression of who I am. It's what I do.

You never get it figured out. You just keep playing.

I tend to play in a way that feels natural to me. To me that's authentic for myself. I play by where I'm led by some sense of where I feel I'm supposed to be.

When I make records, I never listen to stuff after it's done. Ever.

Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black community.

To me, the object of practicing is to allow you to play what you hear. But you're always hearing new things, so you never get to the end of it.

You weren't there.

Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still.

We teach offense 5-0/5-5 (whole method) and defense by part (1-1/3-3).

Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.

But the most important part of everything is to be happy.

God grant you all your desires and accept my own hearty thanks for all your attention to me. Although indeed, those attentions have tried me more than death can now terrify me.

All mystics speak the same language, for they come from the same country.

When I begin a story at my desk, the window to my back, the path is not there. As I start to walk, I make the path.

Usually people who are in my position, they run a company and they hire people and then they take the credit for it.

But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!