You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

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

Nobody told me I was a child prodigy.

You can practice to learn a technique, but I'm more interested in conceiving of something in the moment.

The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique.

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?

In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron Curtain, same thing. It was all underground, but they needed the food of freedom that jazz offered.