We can all be ourselves, be true to ourselves, and all be together.

So in other words, we were constantly challenged to grow, and thats what a master does.

Oscar Peterson is the greatest living influence on jazz pianists today.

My father was really good with math. It's a funny thing, I don't remember my father or my mother being so mechanical-minded. My father always wanted to be a doctor, but he came from a really poor family in Georgia, and there was no way he was going to be a doctor.

You can expand, repeat, even change keys and do other things electronically to give certain elements and phrases more cohesiveness.

Inspiration is constantly in the air. It's up to us to develop the sensitivity to pick up on it.

Each human being exists because there's something they have to offer for the evolution of the universe that only they can fulfill.