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!

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

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

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

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

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

I'm not talking ideas, or even presentation. It's like in politics: You have to sell something to become an electric player - like your skin or your heart.