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.

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.

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".

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.

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

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