Fear closes all doors to the true self, that brilliant center where the ecstasy lies.

- Kenny Werner

Bill Evans described his tunes as vehicles; they are vehicles for self-expression, or expression of the self.

- Kenny Werner

I never call myself modern or traditional, in our out, new or used, because I prefer not to be hemmed in by rigid definitions.

- Kenny Werner

Intellect has to surrender to instinct when it is time to play.

- Kenny Werner

Nothing in music is hard, just unfamiliar.

- Kenny Werner

There is no easy or difficult; only familiar and unfamiliar.

- Kenny Werner

If one's life depends on doing something right, as in the case of the tightrope walker, one will practice on a much deeper level.

- Kenny Werner

We are all part of a universal game. Returning to our essence while living in the world is the object of the game. The earth is the game board, and w…

- Kenny Werner

In fear, we expect; with love, we accept.

- Kenny Werner