I am not fundamentally a musician, I am fundamentally a human being..

I've always been interested in science. I used to take watches apart and clocks apart, and there's little screws, and a little this and that, and I f….

I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things..

When a human being is oppressed, the natural tendency is to feel anger. Jazz is a response to oppression that is not bullets and blood. Jazz is the e….

I keep recycling and repackaging music that I've done in the past, as though I can't write anymore. Like, okay, I'm done with that. But I need to kin….

The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way..

The Internet opens up a whole new range of possibilities in a wide range of areas..

I've had a life that has taken many interesting paths. I've learned a lot from mentors who were instrumental in shaping me, and I want to share what ….

In the past, there's always been one leader that has led the pack to development of the music..

One of the greatest attributes of jazz, I think, is that it is that open..

A great teacher is one who realizes that he himself is also a student and whose goal is not dictate the answers, but to stimulate his students' creat….

Oscar Peterson is the greatest living influence on jazz pianists today..

Wisdom is the key to understanding the age, creating the time..

It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project..

I don't think there are any pure Africans of the African Americans, but the African part of our history was pretty much taken away from us during sla….

Each human being exists because there's something they have to offer for the evolution of the universe that only they can fulfill..

Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human..

In the world of Art there are no wrong choices..

I don't mind being classified as a jazz artist, but I do mind being restricted to being a jazz artist. My foundation has been in jazz, though I didn'….

It's part of life to have obstacles. It's about overcoming obstacles; that's the key to happiness..

Most people define themselves by what they do - 'I'm a musician.' Then one day it occurred to me that I'm only a musician when I'm playing music - or….