Working with Monk is like falling down a dark elevator shaft.

I would like to bring to people something like happiness. I would like to discover a method so that if I want it to rain, it will start right away to rain. If one of my friends is ill, I'd like to play a certain song and he will be cured; when he'd be broke, I'd bring out a different song and immediately he'd receive all the money he needed.

...That is one of the main causes of this arrogance: the idea of power. Then you lose your true power which is to be part of all, and the only way you can be part of all is to understand it. And when you don't understand, you have to go humbly to it. You don't go to school and say, 'I know what you're going to teach me'.

All a musician can do is to get closer to the source.

I believe that men are here to grow themselves into the best good that they can be - at least, this is what I want to do.

One positive thought produces millions of positive vibrations.

Jazz is a word they use to sell our music, but to me that word does not exist.