The idea of life is to give and receive.

As a musician you have to keep one foot back in the past and have one foot forward into the future.

I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.

Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that.

It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.

One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.

You can't steal a gift. Bird [Charlie Parker] gave the world his music, and if you can hear it you can have it.

I try to play the bare essence, to let everything be just what it's supposed to be.

The sign of a mature musician is knowing what not to play.

There have been two great revelations in my life: The first was bepop, the second was homeopathy.

Where there's no mutual respect, there's trouble!

You know what happened to her, right?

When writing a book what is more important? Grammar and spelling or telling a great story? I know which I would choose.

Multitasking divides your attention and leads to confusion and weakened focus.

I don't want my wife to sleep with anyone but me, and I want to give her the same respect.

Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.

Let them revere nothing but religion, morality and liberty.

You don't want to live in the past. Everything in life is in the future. You don't want to continue to be buried in the past.

If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous love arising in you that you have never known before.

There is a city in which you find everything you desire-handsome people, pleasures, ornaments of every kind-all that the natural person craves. However, you cannot find a single wise person there.

Men are we, and must grieve when even the shade Of that which once was great is passed away.