If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I'd spend it choking a white man. I'd do it nice and slow..

Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!.

Do not fear mistakes. There are none..

It's not the notes you play, it's the notes you don't play..

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

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

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

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

Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.

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

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….

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..

Music is the framework around the silence..

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

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..