I don't just write music to esthetically satisfy somebody. The reason I write music is that I feel it's a vehicle or channel which leads to your true self, your essence.

Education has a larger function than the mere communication of knowledge.

On the other side of every mountain was another mountain.

I believe that most of what was said of God was in reality said of that Spirit whose body is Earth.

Whenever I heard a musician do something that I could not explain, I went back to the theory in order to figure it out.

If America has a future, Jazz has a future. The two are inseparable.

I don't just write music to esthetically satisfy somebody. The reason I write music is that I feel it's a vehicle or channel which leads to your true self, your essence.