All a musician can do is to get closer to the source.
God breathes through us so completely...So gently we hardly feel it...yet it is our everything.
You can play a shoestring if you're sincere.
Working with Monk is like falling down a dark elevator shaft.
Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music as if for the first time, as if I had never heard it before. Being so inescapably a part of it, I'll never know what the listener gets, what the listener feels, and that's too bad.
The first time I heard Bird play, it hit me right between the eyes.