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.

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

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

Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms.

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!

The way I think about the practicing, it is my undercover work.

Silence is the potential from which music can arise.