Just because you're not a drummer doesn't mean you don't have to keep time.

Whatever you think can’t be done, somebody will come along and do it. A genius is the one most like himself.

I say, play your own way. Don't play what the public want - you play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doing - even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years.

Sometimes it's to your advantage for people to think you're crazy

The loudest noise in the world is silence.

There are no wrong notes; some are just more right than others.

Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture.

Jazz is freedom. You think about that.

Don't play everything (or every time); let some things go by... What you don't play can be more important than what you do.

Jazz is my adventure. I'm after new chords, new ways of syncopating, new figures, new runs. How to use notes differently. That's it. Just using notes differently.

The only cats worth anything are the cats that take chances.

Belief in oneself is an essential factor for success in life. It helpsyou surmount challenges on your road to success.

It's not always that we need to do more but rather that we need to focus on less.

Important things are inevitably cliche, but nobody wants to admit that.

Deals work best when each side gets something it wants from the other.

The peace that comes with surrendered action turns to a sense of aliveness when you actually enjoy what you are doing.

I think Ray Guy and John Madden for sure should be in the Hall of Fame and Cliff Branch should be as well.

First study the science, and then practice the art which is born of that science.

Respect starts with ourselves.

How can you do the right thing when you can't figure out what that is? When all you have before you are choices in various shades of wrong?

Those who think they 'know' from the beginning will never in fact come to know anything.