Nothing big ever came from being small.
Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.
It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.
For me, being an innovator doesn't mean being more intelligent, more rich, it's not a word, it's an action.
Music has many uses and I think the most perfected use that music has is one of a healing quality.
I don't try to please when I play. I try to cure.
We in the Western world suffer from too many categories and classes; we've forgotten that we all still have diapers on. We've separated music from life.
Do not so contemplate eternity that you waste today.
A writer's mind seems to be situated partly in the solar plexus and partly in the head.
All day the darkness and the cold Upon my heart have lain Like shadows on the winter sky Like frost upon the pane
We have a finite amount of time. Whether short or long, it doesn't matter. Life is to be lived.