You score goals as a kid. Then you grow up stupid and become a goalkeeper.
The best musicians are not the best players, they're the best listeners.
My first relationship to any kind of musical situation is as a listener.
One very fundamental thing has not changed and I realized that it will never change. . . is that I really need to go home and practice.
Listening is the key to everything good in music.
Learning to play is mostly about learning to hear, and learning to really listen deeply to sound in a musical way is a lifetime's worth of work.
People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a Jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.
Life is too short to sleep it all away!
My extroversion is a way of managing my introversion.
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. . . . Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
I find it interesting that there are impostors out on the Internet pretending to be Werner Herzog.