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

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

Music always turns into music. As soon as I play a key, push a key down, there's no theory any more. When I go and I hear a sound on the keyboard, all theories go out the window.

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

Once we're inside a tune, we can do anything with it.

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