Like no matter what happens, this would be the ultimate, they can make something positive happen.

I don't look at music from the standpoint of being a musician; I look at it from the standpoint of being a human being.

There's so much spontaneity involved, what do you practice? How do you practice teamwork? How do you practice sharing? How do you practice daring? How do you practice being nonjudgmental?

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

It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself.

If you're not judging what happens, then you're trusting what others are doing, what you're playing, and trusting what you're playing.And it can lead you to other ideas, to something maybe you hadn't expressed before.

The most valuable things in life are priceless. They are courage, compassion, wisdom, respect for ourselves and others, and a host of characteristics that we call the beauty of the human spirit.