We just can't go and try to turn the clock back, that's not happening anymore. You've got to figure something else out.

Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life.

The way we look at it, everything is a sound.

Play as well as you can all the time, and if you're truthful to your thing, you'll succeed.

We're just beginning to learn the importance of music in our society.

Many times you never know what's going to happen. You'll play songs that you never thought you were going to play.

I always tell my students when you're going to be a jazz musician the first thing you've got to do is be a professional musician, and that means you have to feed yourself with the instrument.

A chord is just the name of a sound.

The music we play is kind of hard to explain. It's music that we really feel.

It's just about really being sensitive, and trying to play a music that is about music.

We expect the listener to have, like, a movie going on when they hear us. That's what it's all about for us.

Our Dreams, not just a Dreams, It can be reality.

I believe you can take all experiences and use them as knowledge and fuel to be a better person.

Four Rules For Life Show up. Pay attention. Tell the truth. Don't be attached to the results.

The true artists is one who insists on producing a supply, whether or not there's any demand.

Sorry. But I don't need some money-grubbing preacher defining my relationship with God.

Self-love is an instrument useful but dangerous; it often wounds the hand which makes use of it, and seldom does good without doing harm.

I'm chasing my dreams straight to the top - into a sky that has no limits.

I avoided reality for most of my life. But once you deal with it, it's kind of cool.

Hollywood views regular people as children, and they think they're the smart ones who need to tell the idiots out there how to be.