Fusion has been my nemesis..
I was deeply impressed and moved by his masterful playing. He was highly polished, profound, subtle, and intense. He was extremely fluent in a great ….
When I’m creating at the piano, I tend to feel happy; but - the eternal dilemma - how can we be happy amid the unhappiness of others? I'd do everythi….
Music is the way our memories sing to us across time..
When Jazz broke through in England, I remember sneaking to listen on the radio much to my parent's disapproval..
All the music you've ever heard in your life is somewhere in your head. I don't reject that, I use it..
All that I've played, all that I've sung, I couldn't have done any other way..
At that elusive moment when we transcend our ordinary performance and feel in harmony with something else-whether it's a glorious sunset, inspiring m….
Anything can become music if listened to long enough.
The human attitude of which classical music is the expression is always the same; it is always based on the same kind of insight into life and strive….
The pause makes you think the song will end. And then the song isn't really over, so you're relieved. But then the song does actually end, because ev….
Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken..
Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect -and I don't live to be- but before you start pointing fingers... make sure you hands ar….
A blown-out tube ripped some of the grind from the amplifier, throwing us into a momentary tizzy. The unusual sound led me to play unusually, and the….
You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling..
Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards..
In these days of political, personal and economic disintegration, music is not a luxury, it's a necessity; not simply because it is therapeutic, nor ….
Music is nothing separate from me. It is me... You'd have to remove the music surgically..
Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time..
Music is the application of sounds to the canvas of silence..
Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!.