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

My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being.

All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.

Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music for the first time, as if I had never heard it before.

Working with Monk brought me close to a musical architect of the highest order. I felt I learned from him in every way--through the senses, theoretically, technically. I would talk to Monk about musical problems, and he would sit at the piano and show me the answers just by playing them. I could watch him play and find out the things I wanted to know. Also, I could see a lot of things that I didn't know about at all.

I'm into scales right now.

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.