To me, human existence exists on a multiple level, not just on a two-dimensional level, not just having to be identified with what you do and what you say.

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 universe is seeming really huge right now. I need something to hold on to.

Buddy , you might think that I've lost my mind. But mister, I'd pay twice to do it one more time.

That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than he has seen.

Life is not too short... we just wait too long to begin it.

Fishing is such great fun, I have often felt, that it really ought to be done in bed

Women are much stronger than men. When a woman says enough is enough, which means enough is enough. Man will always lie at her feet in the hope of return. I was lying. And somehow happy.

This is class war on an international scale, and power is in the hands of those who control the international economic system.

Humor is in fact an essential element in the mirth of creation. We can see how, in many matters in our lives, God wants to prod us into taking things a bit more lightly.

Can you imagine a silence so desperate to be heard?

A fruit salad is delicious precisely because each fruit maintains its own flavor.