Fear closes all doors to the true self, that brilliant center where the ecstasy lies.

I never call myself modern or traditional, in our out, new or used, because I prefer not to be hemmed in by rigid definitions.

Intellect has to surrender to instinct when it is time to play.

There is no easy or difficult; only familiar and unfamiliar.

Bill Evans described his tunes as vehicles; they are vehicles for self-expression, or expression of the self.

Just before I play, I like to feel that no-one has ever played the piano before, that I'm in complete virgin territory, and that every note I play is the most beautiful sound I've ever heard.

It is good to view things as familiar or unfamiliar, rather than as difficult or easy.