The worst thing about the life of a jazz musician on the road is getting to the gig. Once you're there and playing, it's marvelous.

Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians.

Jazz is about the only form of art existing today in which there is freedom of the individual without the loss of group contact.

Damn it, when I'm bombastic, I have my reasons. I want to be bombastic-take it or leave it.

Kinship doesn't come from skin color. It's in your soul and your mind.

It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me.

The secret of a great melody is a secret.

I'm always hoping for the nights that are inspired where you almost have an out of body experience

Jazz is about freedom within discipline.

Don't be a perfectionist... leave that to the classical musicians.

We don't know the power that's within our own bodies

The flame of the spirit is burning lamp.

I am harmony.I was harmony.I have always been harmony.I was born by harmony and I will go by complete harmony.

With my partner beside me, I fear nothing, not even death.

...this initiation ceremony, known as 'signing the Official Secrets Act', has no legal force; everyone is bound by the Act whether they sign the form or not.

Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?

We long to connect; we fear that if we do, our freedom and individuality will disappear.

I know why superman left krypton. Earth was the only place where he could get steriods!

Faith in yourself, in your friends, in your colleagues and most of all, faith in your ability to impact our future is the best strategy I know.

I was an equal opportunity eater. Every ethnic group got a shot.

Aging and death is what happens to everybody.