After two takes you're imitating yourself..

There are no wrong notes; some are just more right than others..

The only cats worth anything are the cats that take chances..

Everyone is a genius at being themselves.

All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians..

Jazz is freedom. You think about that..

Jazz is my adventure. I'm after new chords, new ways of syncopating, new figures, new runs. How to use notes differently. That's it. Just using notes….

It's always night, or we wouldn't need light..

I didn't know there were 2 ten o'clocks in a day..

I don't have a definition of Jazz. You're just supposed to know it when you hear it..

Don't play everything (or every time); let some things go by... What you don't play can be more important than what you do..

It can't be any new note. When you look at the keyboard, all the notes are there already. But if you mean a note enough, it will sound different. You….

Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture..

Whatever you think can’t be done, somebody will come along and do it. A genius is the one most like himself..

Sometimes it's to your advantage for people to think you're crazy.

At this time the fashion is to bring something to jazz that I reject. They speak of freedom. But one has no right, under pretext of freeing yourself,….

Everyone is influenced by everybody but you bring it down home the way you feel it..

I don't consider myself a musician who has achieved perfection and can't develop any further. But I compose my pieces with a formula that I created m….

I say, play your own way. Don't play what the public want - you play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doing - even if it does tak….

Just because you're not a drummer doesn't mean you don't have to keep time..

A genius is the one most like himself..