You know when I was younger I used to look at Downbeat Magazine and I figured anybody in Downbeat must be making a living.

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.

She will rise. With a spine of steel and a roar like thunder, she will rise.

I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it sho

It's hard to peak when you've been training since 1965.

My sister has the heart of an artist with a hatchet and an eye patch. And I, we both now know, have a heart that is undeniably, irreparably different.

The years after 50 can be a time of great productivity, meaningful work, pleasure, creativity, and innovation. It's a huge opportunity.

It takes time to get the whole package. Freshmen can't be seniors.

In some of the best worship songs we bring our praises to God - yet at the same time also end up preaching to ourselves.

I practiced for at least two hours every day for twenty years, before then I practiced maybe four to five hours a day, and before then 14 hours a day. It was all I had ever done.

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

I feel like I have had to catch up to the art I've made, and learn from the protagonists I have written, especially in relation to gender.