The human being receives the pleasure from music, not from the argument over what it is.

It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.

Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.

When I have them working together, it's like a beautiful kaleidoscope.

For me, being an innovator doesn't mean being more intelligent, more rich, it's not a word, it's an action.

The idea is more important than the style you're playing in.

You don't have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don't have anything to do with placement. Numbers only have something to do with repetition.

I don't try to please when I play. I try to cure.

Music has many uses and I think the most perfected use that music has is one of a healing quality.

Whatever you do, it's over when you do it - but first you have to do it.

We in the Western world suffer from too many categories and classes; we've forgotten that we all still have diapers on. We've separated music from life.

The question of the stranger in a society which estranges everybody from it--while forcing everybody to assimilate their own alienation--takes cover under dubious and sinister masks.

Passion is a far better prioritizer than any organization system. Soul refreshment comes from SEEING glory – not getting stuff done.

... if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane.

smoking had come to be an important punctuation mark in the long sentence of a day on the road.

I am not well educated or bright enough to be politically clued in, but I hope in the film that I'm going to shock a few people, win a lot of people over.

When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines through you.

She can't even chew gum and walk in a straight line, let alone write a book.

The Russian economy is way down because of the price of oil, and because the USSR was a big chunk of it.

All spirits are enslaved which serve things evil

Session work makes you more strict. You can't hit notes all over the place. You've got to make each one really count.