It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change..

A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear..

Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent..

It's not the note you play that's the wrong note - it's the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong..

In music, silence is more important than sound..

It takes a long time to sound like yourself..

My future starts when I wake up every morning..

First you imitate, then you innovate..

Always listen for what you can leave out..

If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can't be trusted..

If you're not nervous then you're not paying attention..

I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life..

If you hit a wrong note, it's the next note that you play that determines if it's good or bad..

If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!.

Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.

You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four..

Don't worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one..

Don't play what's there, play what's not there..

Music is the framework around the silence..

See, if you put a musician in a place where he has to do something different from what he does all the time, then he can do that - but he's got to th….

Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is..