Music sets up ladders, it makes us invisible, it sets us apart, it lets us escape; but from the visible there is no escape..

Without a song, each day would be a century..

One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing..

'Each man kills the things he loves'. I recognise that in myself, in relationships, even with guitars, beautiful things that I've had and wilfully d….

Basically my influences have been American influences. It's been blues, gospel, swing era music, bebop music, Broadway show music, classical music. I….

They didn't dictate to me as to what kind of music that they wanted me to play or what tunes, what musicians that I was going to use. They let me do ….

Death hastens those who hasten death..

Jazz translates the moment into a sense of inspiration for not only the musicians but for the listeners..

Soul music is pain - you can hear the slaves, the beatin' and the hurtin'..

Where words leave off, music begins..

Words created divergencies between beings, because their precise meanings put an opinion around the idea. Music only retains the highest and purest s….

When I listen to music today, it is about 99 percent classical. I rarely even listen to folk music, the music of my own specialty, because folk music….

I didn't take a single business class. I learned on the job..

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger..

Diversity is its most consistent characteristic....The characteristics of freely improvised music are established only by the sonic-musical identity ….

music is a missionary effort to colonize earth for imperialistic heaven..

In the world of Art there are no wrong choices..

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent..

Music is always changing and the changes are unpredictable..

Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour..

Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music..