God breathes through us so completely...So gently we hardly feel it...yet it is our everything.

If you're bourgeois, money is it. It's all the questions and all the answers. Ain't no E-flat or color blue, only $12.98 or $1,000. If it isn't money, it isn't nothing.

We should pray and seek for knowledge which would enable us to portray and project the things we love in music, in a way that might wholly or in some part, be appreciated as having been conceived and composed or performed and presented with dedication and in positive taste

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

Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.

When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people.

There are so many things to be considered in making music. The whole question of life itself... I know that I want to produce beautiful music, music that does things to people that they need.