Ultimately, musicians of the world must come to realize the potential of their calling... If the musician is illuminated from within, he becomes a lamp that lights other lamps.

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.

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

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

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

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

Ultimately, musicians of the world must come to realize the potential of their calling... If the musician is illuminated from within, he becomes a lamp that lights other lamps.