Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought..

Everything good I've ever gotten in life, I only got because I gave something else up..

Presents, I often say, endear absents..

An unshared happiness is not happiness..

Most of us are better when things go better..

I work with the dead, but I am working for the living..

Through the Unknown, we'll find the New.

Everything that is not me is incomprehensible..

I cannot pretend i am not without fear..

There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l love it, I try to free it from barren trad….

On television I feel like a man playing piano in a brothel; every now and again he solaces himself by playing 'Abide with Me' in the hope of edifying….

Some things a lady doesn't tell..

The things that motivate human beings, they don't change, emotionally..

Music is the thousandth of a millisecond between one note and another; how you get from one to the other-that's where the music is..

I'm competitive - that's what defines me - and I love it..

Oh, am I wearing an ascot? I didn't notice..

We cannot work for others without working for ourselves..

I didn't not perform..

To be in the 1% you have to do what the 99% won't..

Women and rhythm-section first!?.

The day we stop playing will be the day we stop learning..