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….

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

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

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..

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

Silence is the potential from which music can arise..

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

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

I am a romantic, I admit it..

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

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

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

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

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

Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms..

... 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….

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 ….

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

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%….

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