Love yourself, open your heart which means doing the work on yourself first. Then love will follow.
Play and write music the way you want the world to be.
Jazz shouldn't have any mandates. Jazz is not supposed to be something that's required to sound like jazz. For me, the word 'jazz' means, 'I dare you. '
If all you have is music, then you don't have music
The arts can open the door to the imagination, pushing the envelope of how peace can be created. It takes courage to take this kind of risk, and courage is what we all need to create a better world.
Go out on the stage as a human being and do not be afraid to show struggle in your music. It's a struggle in life and then struggle and then victory.
Music is interior decoration.
When one cultivates to the utmost the principles of his nature, and exercises them on the principle of reciprocity, he is not far from the path.
But it isn't easy,' said Pooh. 'Because Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you.
I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.