I am a romantic, I admit it..

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

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

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….

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..

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

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

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

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….

When you're up against an electric band like that, it's like you're on two separate planets..

Silence is the potential from which music can arise..

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

I actually get a metallic taste in my mouth when I think about electric music..

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….

I don't like recording studios - except my own, which is just a little room above the garage..

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 ….

Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms..

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 ….

If you already have a piece of music ingrained in your body, why would you not play it?.

I'm my own most merciless critic onstage..