Nothing in music is hard, just unfamiliar.

There is no easy or difficult; only familiar and unfamiliar.

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.

In many cases, the decision to study music has robbed them of the ability to play music. They have lost respect for music that comes from within because they have been programmed to feel "unworthy".

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.

Music can shoot through the musician like lightening through the sky if that music is unobstructed by thoughts.