Anyone who attempts to build great things will face challenges.

It's very unlikely you're a genius, but, if you're ready to work at it hard and you want to listen to music all the time and you want to learn about it and you want to be around the people who do it, you'll find your own way.

Being positive won’t guarantee you’ll succeed. But being negative will guarantee you won’t.

Everyone wants to do what the great ones do; but very few are willing to do what they did to become great

I went in [Sweet Basil band] and played with them, maybe half the gig for almost eight years or more.

When I heard Charlie Parker the first time on a record, it had seemed like an old, scratchy kind of record and I didn't get it.

Joe Henderson, who I maybe, to me, if I had to pick one improviser in my life that I saw live that blew my mind most, especially as a teenager.