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

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

A great teacher is one who realizes that he himself is also a student and whose goal is not dictate the answers, but to stimulate his students' creativity enough so that they go out and find the answers themselves.

One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, although it developed out of the African American experience, speaks more about the human experience than the experience of a particular people.

As a human being, I'm concerned about the world that I live in.So, I'm concerned about peace.I'm concerned about man's inhumanity to man. I'm concerned about the environment.

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

Since time is a continuum, the moment is always different, so the music is always different.