I learned the importance of being nonjudgmental, taking what happens and trying to make it work.That's something you should apply to life.

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.

One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.

Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference.

You don't need the fame to be vital.

Clare Fischer was a major influence on my harmonic concept. He and Bill Evans, and Ravel and Gil Evans, finally. You know, that's where it really came from. Almost all of the harmony that I play can be traced to one of those four people and whoever their influences were.

You can change your character and, at the same time, change your fortune.