I keep recycling and repackaging music that I've done in the past, as though I can't write anymore. Like, okay, I'm done with that. But I need to kind of prod myself again into come on, Herbie, get off your duff and start writing some new music.

The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.

We are eternally linked not just to each other but our environment.

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

You would not exist if you did not have something to bring to the table of life.

I started off with classical music, and I got into jazz when I was about 14 years old. And I've been playing jazz ever since.

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