What I've been trying to do for years is to get the music played on a station other than jazz stations, you know, to expand the audience.

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.

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.

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.

The troubles of modern life come from being divorced from nature.

Nonviolence is kindling light of love into the dark places and budding trust from the threshold of hopelessness.

Thinking sure could get a fellow in a lot of trouble. Almost as much as opening his big gabber and sticking his muddy foot in it.

It is not impossible to live in love, with love, for love and then become love.

Almost more than talent you need tenacity, and an infinite capacity for rejection, if you are to succeed.

War is a contest, and you finally get to a point where you are talking merely about race suicide, and nothing else.

Suppression of the feminine principal has enabled The Ego to gain absolute supremacy in the collective human psyche

You are my sunshine my only sunshine. You make me happy when skies are grey. You'll never know dear how much I love you. Please don't take my sunshine away.

Poor artist! You gave away part of your soul when you painted the picture which you are now trying to dispose of.

You're revealing something about yourself in a more exaggerated, more fleshed-out way, and it awakens something in you that maybe you didn't know you had.