You can establish a presence on the internet; you can have just as much of a presence as a major company or anyone else.

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.

Anger has great strength, but no brains. Greed has a great appetite, but no heart.Pride has a great spirit, but no soul.

By being a fascist you lose your right to be called human being!

Billions of years ago, you were a big bang, but now you're a complicated human being. And then we cut ourselves off, and don't feel that we're still the big bang. But you are.

There's a very fine line between giving someone the Heimlich maneuver and dry-humping a stranger.

Some of my friends like to keep science and religion together, but I certainly like to keep them separate.

In his garden, every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation.

I had to read Wuthering Heights for English and I never enjoyed a book in all my life as much as that one.

I am Roman, alas, because Horace is Roman.

Poetry must speak of others, in order to speak for the poet's imagination, in order to speak of itself; it is slowed down by poetics after its flight is over.

When the wine is ready, that's when we'll drink.