Rhythm is the life of space of time danced through.

To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.

Doesn't that fool know I recorded that song because I like it?

Improvisation is the ability to talk to oneself.

To feel is perhaps the most terrifying thing in this society.

If you take the creation of music and the creation of your own life values as your overall goal, then living becomes a musical process.

The quality of life, values that go down to doin' that, that's the issue.

You must surrender whatever preconceptions you have about music if you're really interested in it.

Sometimes when it goes really well, you wonder, "who's that at the piano?"

I discovered very early that it wasn't quite enough for me to imitate people.

I try to imitate on the piano the leaps in space a dancer makes.

There's a “Pleasure"of happinessIn every thing I really wanna doWhen I find true happinessIn every thing I can do - Cocoy McCoy -

They no longer wanted to entice anyone

It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always this occupation ought to last as long as life.

I have never seen faces, but because I have looked people in the eye, only their gazes.

If one door closes and another does not open, try climbing thru a window, either way, make your way in.

I think it's part of being English, particularly if you are middle-class - you're always looking to be reminded that you are no good and you are always actually embarrassed about being successful.

When NBC News first assigned me to the Barack Obama campaign, I must confess my knees quaked a bit....I wondered if I was up to the job. I wondered if I could do the campaign justice.

Even if I were certain that the world would end tomorrow, I would plant a tree this very day

Pursuits become habits. [Lat., Abeunt studia in mores.]

Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.