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

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.

All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.

If you come away with me, I can promise you pain and disgrace, ” I said. “But I will love you like no other can.

The problems with lies is they start to pile up, one on top of another, until it's hard to find your way out from under the heap.

Misery and poverty of a nation does not depend on how fertile their land is but the fertility of their thoughts.

Hiring should be like dating. A great marriage does not happen in a 30 minutes interview.

Man lives by habits indeed but what he lives for is thrill and excitements. ... From time immemorial war has been ... the supremely thrilling excitement.

Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life.... Just one. Our life. We have nothing else.

Ask José Mourinho, he wouldn't know a thing about me, my sport - he knows football, and to get to high levels you have to be insane, nothing else means anything.

Men have no concept of how to design things for the home. Women should design the things they use.

Five years ago I figured we were at the top of our game and that was the best it was going to get, but with every album it seems to keep on building on itself.

Sanctification consists of the daily realization that in Christ we have died, and in Christ we have been raised.