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.

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

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

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

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

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.