Live in the precious present..

The whole thing of being in music is not to control it but to be swept away by it. If you're swept away by it you can't wait to do it again and the s….

I think when I feel I'm at my best is when I'm on stage, and it's my version of jazz because it's just riffing or something..

I would have to find something else to bury here and I wished it could be Charles..

I wanted to play some more grown-up music - jazz..

The whole thing of being in music is not to control it but to be swept away by it..

Let me whisper it. Let me sigh it. Let me sing it, my dear or I will cry it..

I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking..

There are a lot of records coming out, in every field of music, not just jazz..

Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music..

You have to learn to work and search, not expect instantly to find..

What is power without control?.

Time must be explicitly managed, like money..

Let us be French as the Americans are English..

I was never trained for anything.

Jazz is not background music..

I always say, what really makes a movie commercial is that it makes its money back..

Learning is the making of meaning..

Jazz is not background music. You must concentrate in order to get the most out of it. You must absorb it..

Jazz is about being in the moment..

Jazz is a music that is open enough to borrow from any other form of music, and has the strength to influence any other form of music..