Once we're inside a tune, we can do anything with it..

Ideally, I'd like to be the eternal novice, for then only the surprises would be endless..

I cannot say what I think is right about Music. I only know the rightness of it..

We accept so many things that come through the media; we get used to them, however vigilant we are. But for any creative art, you have to remain 110%….

If music is sound & came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound..

You know, when people look at a tree, they look at the leaves; they don't look at the spaces between the leaves. They're focused on the tree. I think….

One thing you learn: if you want to reveal yourself, you also have to know where to stop..

I believe that a truly valuable artist must be an artist who realizes the impossibility of his task -and then continues to do it..

I am a romantic, I admit it..

I'm my own most merciless critic onstage..

I've never heard anything Wynton [Marsalis] played sound like it meant anything at all. Wynton has no voice and no presence. His music sounds like a ….

When I joined the band I didn't know any of the tunes, and when I left the band I didn't know any of the tunes!.

If I'm not a jazz player all the time, I've at least been cued in to what I do by jazz..

If a person plays dissonance long enough, it will sound like consonance. It's a language that was alien and then it's less and less alien as it conti….

Music always turns into music. As soon as I play a key, push a key down, there's no theory any more. When I go and I hear a sound on the keyboard, al….

The way I think about the practicing, it is my undercover work..

I realized that improvisers should probably always have time off. But musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute - unl….

I'm not talking ideas, or even presentation. It's like in politics: You have to sell something to become an electric player - like your skin or your ….

It is the individual voice, present to itself, that needs to be heard. We need to hear the process of the musician working on himself. We don't need ….

When you're on stage you have a very strange knowledge of what the audience is. It isn't exactly a sound - it's a hum, like the streets..

If sound is music and came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound. If the sound is effective, it should actually have a chemica….