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

I think you have to be completely merciless with yourself.

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

I'm my own most merciless critic onstage.

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

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