Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.

When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people.

I'd like to point out to people the divine in a musical language that transcends words. I want to speak to their souls.

I start from one point and go as far as possible. But, unfortunately, I never lose my way. I 'localize,' which is to say that I think always in a given space. I rarely think of the whole of a solo, and only very briefly. I always return to the small part of the solo that I was in the process of playing.

In the year of 1957, I experienced, by the grace of God, a spiritual awakening, which was to lead me to a richer, fuller, more productive life.

Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music for the first time, as if I had never heard it before.