When you hear Bach or Mozart, you hear perfection. Remember that Bach, Mozart and Beethoven were great improvisers. I can hear that in their music.

Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians.

Jazz is about the only form of art existing today in which there is freedom of the individual without the loss of group contact.

Damn it, when I'm bombastic, I have my reasons. I want to be bombastic-take it or leave it.

Kinship doesn't come from skin color. It's in your soul and your mind.

It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me.

The secret of a great melody is a secret.

I'm always hoping for the nights that are inspired where you almost have an out of body experience

Jazz is about freedom within discipline.

Don't be a perfectionist... leave that to the classical musicians.

We don't know the power that's within our own bodies

Kindness is the greatest love, it is the healing touch, it is the light of our soul, it is a message from the heart.

There are timesWhen you may think that people are staring at you -They are.

You gotta look backwards to go forwards.

Fear is the first and last obstacle on your path to greatness.

History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images.

MESMERISM, n. Hypnotism before it wore good clothes, kept a carriage and asked Incredulity to dinner.

We need to talk. All of us About what we're going to do now." "I was going to watch Project Runway.

A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.

The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.

The Catholic tradition maintains that the objective norms governing right action are accessible to reason, prescinding from the content of revelation.