If music is sound & came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound.

Wynton Marsalis is jazzy the same way someone who drives a BMW is sporty.

I'm my own most merciless critic onstage.

Ideally, I'd like to be the eternal novice, for then only the surprises would be endless.

When you're on stage you have a very strange knowledge of what the audience is. It isn't exactly a sound - it's a hum, like the streets.

It is the individual voice, present to itself, that needs to be heard. We need to hear the process of the musician working on himself. We don't need to hear who is more clever with synthesizers. Our cleverness has created the world we live in, which in many ways, we're sorry about.

Music always turns into music. As soon as I play a key, push a key down, there's no theory any more. When I go and I hear a sound on the keyboard, all theories go out the window.