You know, when people look at a tree, they look at the leaves; they don't look at the spaces between the leaves. They're focused on the tree. I think there's an awareness of spaces or it wouldn't look like a tree to them.

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

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.

Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms.

Your own music comes out of your head and emotions, but it's not etched in your system.

I am a romantic, I admit it.

Silence is the potential from which music can arise.