I don't think my playing style has really changed over the years; it's just gotten better. I can hear the improvement in comparing older records and ….

Music is my religion. Music is the only thing that has never failed me. People let you down, music won't..

I mean, the piano, of course, but I think the piano should be taught in school just like mathematics, just like reading, writing and arithmetic. I'd ….

For an individual fully to play himself, rather than to sound like someone else, is possibly the hardest thing to do..

Lee Morgan used to stand behind me when I was playing a ballad and he'd be hollering, "Play the pretty notes, man, play the pretty notes." I thought ….