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

Creativity is what makes humanity move. We were created to participate..

... The 'cleverness' syndrome has taken the place of melody. It's like everyone has come down with this terrible disease in jazz....you are always ex….

Your own music comes out of your head and emotions, but it's not etched in your system..

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

I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak..

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

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

Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms..

Wynton Marsalis is jazzy the same way someone who drives a BMW is sporty..

Musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute..

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

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 ….

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

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….

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

Silence is the potential from which music can arise..

I think you have to be completely merciless with yourself..

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'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 ….