I compulsively reach for perfection in music, often at the expense of everything else in my life..

Music is enough for a lifetime - but a lifetime is not enough for music..

Jazz is the continual pulsation of the now..

Count Basie was college, but Duke Ellington was graduate school..

Imitate, assimilate & innovate..

If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing..

Richard liked to say he picked things up for a song, which was odd, because he never sang. He never even whistled. He was not a musical person..

I practice my saxophone three hours a day. I'm not saying I'm particularly special, but if you do something three hours a day for forty years, you ge….

Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves..

Music is a great energizer. It's a language everybody knows..

No one will ever touch Elvis.

Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America..

By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of Jazz..

There are a million good tunes..

Without the definiteness of sculpture and painting, music is, for that very reason, far more suggestive. Like Milton's Eve, an outline, an impulse, i….

I played the vina until my heart turned into the same instrument. Then I offered this instrument to the Divine Musician, the only muscian existing. S….

I wouldn't call myself a leader. I don't want to lead people, I want to tempt them, I want to create a new world for them, just for that very small m….

Music should be healing. Music should uplift the soul. Music should inspire..

If you possess something but you can't give it away, then you don't possess it... it possesses you..

It's interesting to see how acoustic guitars are emerging as a primary instrument once again ... reminds me very much of what Jim Messina and I were ….

Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse..