Mastery is playing whatever you're capable of playing-every time-WITHOUT THINKING.

We are all part of a universal game. Returning to our essence while living in the world is the object of the game. The earth is the game board, and we are the pieces on the board. We move around and around until we remember who we really are, and then we can be taken off the board. At that point, we are no longer the game-piece, but the player; we've won the game.

If one's life depends on doing something right, as in the case of the tightrope walker, one will practice on a much deeper level.

Bill Evans described his tunes as vehicles; they are vehicles for self-expression, or expression of the self.

I never call myself modern or traditional, in our out, new or used, because I prefer not to be hemmed in by rigid definitions.

Intellect has to surrender to instinct when it is time to play.

In fear, we expect; with love, we accept.