No music can fill the gaping void ... at least in my experience only faith. Only faith..

A great influence in my life was the sanctified or Holiness churches...Everybody in there sang and they clapped and stomped heir feet and sang with t….

Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history..

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself..

There is only one better thing than music - live music..

Worry is thinking that has turned toxic. It is jarring music that goes round and round and never comes to either climax or conclusion..

We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music..

Unlike seeing, where one can look away, one cannot 'hear away' but must listen ... hearing implies already belonging together in such a manner that o….

Music revives the recollections it would appease..

There is no such thing as a wrong note..

People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a Jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds..

I have all these computers and keyboards and synthesizers, and I rattle away. For instance, with The Lion King I wrote over four hours worth of tunes….

As long as you've got your horn in your mouth, you're developing..

It's fun to be creative and innovative and come up with something crazy. So I need people to work with who are not going to be afraid to take it to t….

I've messed myself up more playing music than when I played football..

Musicians should never forget that we're blessed. We have a special gift that people can enjoy through us. We've had the good fortune to receive this….

My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed..

Bach takes you to a very quiet place within yourself, to the inner core, a place where you are calm and at peace..

I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff..

Music is an immediate art; it's always happening right now..

Music fills the infinite between two souls. This has been muffled by the mist of our daily habits..