Education has a larger function than the mere communication of knowledge.
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.
If America has a future, Jazz has a future. The two are inseparable.
I believe that most of what was said of God was in reality said of that Spirit whose body is Earth.
On the other side of every mountain was another mountain.
Whenever I heard a musician do something that I could not explain, I went back to the theory in order to figure it out.