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

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..

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

Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms..

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

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

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

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

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

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….

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..

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

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