Your humanity is your instrument.

- Wayne Shorter

To hell with the rules. I'm going for the unknown.

- Wayne Shorter

If all you have is music, then you don't have music

- Wayne Shorter

No one really knows how to deal with the unexpected. How do you rehearse the unknown?

- Wayne Shorter

Go out on the stage as a human being and do not be afraid to show struggle in your music. It's a struggle in life and then struggle and then victory.

- Wayne Shorter

Play and write music the way you want the world to be.

- Wayne Shorter

Composing is improvisation slowed down.

- Wayne Shorter

Jazz shouldn't have any mandates. Jazz is not supposed to be something that's required to sound like jazz. For me, the word 'jazz' means, 'I dare you…

- Wayne Shorter

The arts can open the door to the imagination, pushing the envelope of how peace can be created. It takes courage to take this kind of risk, and cour…

- Wayne Shorter