Music is a universal language insofar as you don't need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music. It doesn't matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is. The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.

You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.

Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.

I don't feel that one instrument has more weight than others. Any sound that you can produce adds to your vocabulary of possibilities.

I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.

What's been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.

You need to have many points of reference; many places to touch down and make contact with.