Music is not the only reason that I practice Buddhism anymore because it has affected my whole life.

One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, although it developed out of the African American experience, speaks more about the human experience than the experience of a particular people.

One of the greatest attributes of jazz, I think, is that it is that open.

Don't be afraid to expand yourself, to step out of your comfort zone. That's where the joy and the adventure lie.

Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.

In the world of Art there are no wrong choices.

A great teacher is one who realizes that he himself is also a student and whose goal is not dictate the answers, but to stimulate his students' creativity enough so that they go out and find the answers themselves.