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.

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.

You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.

Spirituality is a way of life. it is not just doing meditation.

I would prefer to believe that things possess the power of recall, of recollection. That things are memoirs of the existences that once were theirs, if only we knew how to read them.

In narrow and gloomy streets, keep your spirit high!

I always respect a woman.

memory is so selective; wishful thinking presses it into service all the time.

So the deeper stages of sleep are really those times of quiescence, you're really restoring your body and we have a few different stages of sleep.

A good tattoo always has a story that runs deeper than the skin, and Inked tells that story.

People have been asking me for a couple of years when I am going to retire, and I think that now is the right time.

The battle of Kursk... the forcing of the Dnieper... and the liberation of Kiev, left Hitlerite Germany facing catastrophe.