Those who want to know what sound goes into my music should come to NY and open their ears.

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.

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

Drawn by warm nostalgic feelings for the place and by two sweet little words: "Open Bar."

You dont know someone until you know what they want.

Eventually, alas, I realized the main purpose of buying cocaine is to run out of it.

Each morning, we return from the dream soul trying to adjust to the day world, that moment when the two souls exchange places in the driver’s seat.

[Phil Wood] knew about wine. He knew about food. He knew about art. He knew about classical music. He was interested in things.

I only really love a book when I have read it at least four times.

I'm not afraid of anything. That's just the way I am.

I lived my life one way for 35 years, for me. And then the focus came in on what I really was.

But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half.

Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either openly before us or close to us.