Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture.

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.

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.

All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.

It must be an odd person indeed that can say for certain they are normal.

Poor breathing is to low energy as bad air filter is to low car performance.

These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message.

Many thousands of people have had the experience of finding the first friend, and it is none the less a wonder; as great a wonder (pace the novelists) as first love, or even greater.

Competition is healthy ... but there is more to life than winning or we should nearly all be losers

I work with patience, which is almost power.

There are many ways of knocking electrons out of atoms. The simplest is to rub two surfaces together.

Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.

Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other.

I think, if I had my choice, I would spend all my time in the studio writing, and creating music.