People always want to protect what's really going on inside. They want to kind of make visible something that looks more pleasant than what may be happening inside of themselves.

Nobody told me I was a child prodigy.

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

Jazz has been the voice of freedom for so many countries over the past half century.

Wisdom corresponds to the future; it is philosophy.

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.

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