So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.

I did extensive, extensive recordings and made a classical CD-ROM set, which is still on the market. For ten years, it was by itself as the cream of the crop of samples.

I thought it was time to get a group together and the first person I thought of was Wayne Shorter. I called Wayne and in the meantime, Wayne called me to make an album with him, which was Super Nova.

I was very much fascinated with the technology we had that we could edit in the computer our compositions, but all the sounds that were available on the market were crap.

I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which I created for myself.

I actually met Chick Corea in New York, where I was staying with a bass player friend.

I was pretty much prepared because I was already playing in extremely good ways when I arrived from Europe because I played jazz four or five years before I arrived here.

I am touring in Europe. I am putting together a trio and a quartet. I am playing solo concerts with my symphonic sounds. I am very much engaged back to playing and recording and everything.

Miles Davis had me play and he hired me the following week and after that, everything broke wide open.

I basically started playing violin at the age of six. That lasted about three years because my previous teacher died and the second teacher didn't really know how to successfully get me going.

So I am one of those bass players who can do something and musically, it was back then and now it is even more, if you noticed on the new album, I am not playing all the time anymore.

Blessed with so many resources within myself the world was not necessary to me. I could do very well without it.

Because you believed In yourselfYour tiny selfBecause you knewThere is no greater accomplishmentThan making someone love you

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

I'm as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!

The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?

Life is a straight drink - straight pleasure, straight pain, straightforward, one hundred percent.

I wish, I wish I were a poisonous bacterium.

One path leads back to this world, to rebirth; one path leads beyond. Your soul stands at a crossword, trying to make a decision, flipping a coin, a nice image for the soul, I think.

People are accustomed to look at the heavens and to wonder what happens there. It would be better if they would look within themselves, to see what happens there.

God in His law requires the death penalty for homosexuals.