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

I cannot say what I think is right about Music. I only know the rightness of it.

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

I believe that a truly valuable artist must be an artist who realizes the impossibility of his task -and then continues to do it.

If a person plays dissonance long enough, it will sound like consonance. It's a language that was alien and then it's less and less alien as it continues to live.

When I joined the band I didn't know any of the tunes, and when I left the band I didn't know any of the tunes!

If I'm not a jazz player all the time, I've at least been cued in to what I do by jazz.