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.

Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms.

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

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.

I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak.

If you already have a piece of music ingrained in your body, why would you not play it?