True Music, like all true Art, is an experience to be shared, not judged, for praise cannot make it better, as blame cannot make it worse

Jazz is the continual pulsation of the now.

The guitar is of no great importance to me. The people it brings to me are what matter. They are what I'm extremely grateful for, because they are alive. The guitar is just an apparatus.

The music has generated all the techniques I use.

Why won't they let me be? I just need to rest, that's all, to rest and sleep some, and maybe die a little.

Money can't buy love, except on Valentine’s Day.

Do what you love and the rest will come.

The greatest gift at Christmas is love. The love that bind us together us one Human Family.

I love my enemies for two reasons: they inspire me to recognise my weakness. They also inspire me to perfect my imperfect nature.

Self-praise is no recommendation.

I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

Our awareness creates life. Life does not exist independently of perception.

When I look at interviews from when I was that age, I come off different than how I am because I've matured - and I've matured, become a man in front of the public eye.

My wife and I love to host wine and cheese parties. They are simple and elegant and you don't have to put a lot of effort and time into it.