You don't want 300 million Americans putting their money under the mattress.
For me Brazilian music is the perfect mix of melody and rhythm. It just bubbles rhythmically. If I had to pick just one music style to play if would be Brazilian.
You don't have to live the blues to play the blues.
When you get cancer, it's like really time to look at what your life was and is, and I decided that everything I've done so far is not as important as what I'm going to do now.
If you're in jazz and more than ten people like you, you're labeled commercial.
Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don't have to sacrifice.
My father's father came from Russia; my mother came from Romania.
Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings?
Back then, I was really into composing the entire solo, beginning to end. I wanted to have it at least 80 to 90 percent complete before going into the studio. I didn't improvise in the studio. I was young, and I didn't really have the development in my playing or the ability to show up with nothing and then put down 500 ideas. I can do that now because I'm so much more of a musician now.
Only a soul full of despair can ever attain serenity and, to be in despair, you must have loved a good deal and still love the world.
Among these widely differing families of men, the first that attracts attention, the superior in intelligence, in power, and in enjoyment, is the white, or European, the MAN pre-eminently so called, below him appear the Negro and the Indian.