Mathematics is man's own handiwork, subject only to the limitations imposed by the laws of thought.
I love Indian music very much, but I haven't studied that specifically.
Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.
That's kind of my goal: to build a new row of meaningful tones.
You just keep playing. If someone special comes along and organizes it in a new way, then you'll have another approach and everybody will jump on it to try to learn.
Many people do think it's naive to improvise in front of paying customers. I'm not saying one way is better than another.
Labels don't mean anything to me. I'm trying to play as passionately as I'm able to. If they want to call that cool, that's fine. Just spell the name right, is the formula.
Playing shortstop is 75 to 80 percent anticipation, knowing the hitter and the pitch being thrown.
I am not even six feet tall. Yet I am praying to the Absolute Supreme to reach His infinite Height, which is far beyond even my imagination's flight. For me to long to grow into that Height - is this not a miracle? I am mortal. My thoughts, my deeds, my experiences - everything that I have and everything that I am - represent mortality. Yet despite everything that I have and everything that I am, I am longing for Immortality. Is this not a miracle?
I don't really marinate in anybody's album because I don't really want to sound like anybody else when I put my album out. So I'd rather not even be tempted to listen to a bunch of other stuff with any degree of emersion in it, cause I just don't want to sound like anything else, so I kinda focus on my own music.
I think that what we want to do as we continue to move forward is look at the various points that have been made. We`re looking forward to the appointment of a monitor so that we can continue to do some of the things that we`ve been doing.