When you're on stage you have a very strange knowledge of what the audience is. It isn't exactly a sound - it's a hum, like the streets.

The way I think about the practicing, it is my undercover work.

If you already have a piece of music ingrained in your body, why would you not play it?

If music is sound & came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound.

Creativity is what makes humanity move. We were created to participate.

I cannot say what I think is right about Music. I only know the rightness of it.

Ideally, I'd like to be the eternal novice, for then only the surprises would be endless.

I believe that a truly valuable artist must be an artist who realizes the impossibility of his task -and then continues to do it.

One thing you learn: if you want to reveal yourself, you also have to know where to stop.

Silence is the potential from which music can arise.

Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms.

Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.

My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.

The more self-centered and egotistical a guy is, the better ballplayer he's going to be.

The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul.

If negative meant positive we'd be heroes.

Knowing where you come from is one thing, but it's suicide to stay there.

I guess I'm just courtly until people get in my way. You'll find most Southerners are like that.

The weak may be joked out of anything but their weakness.

They think we’re intelligent. So, Marco, keep quiet. We don’t want them to learn the truth.” Rachel

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