Audiences - they like colour, you know. I can go out there wearing a red suit, man, and they'll say I'm out of sight ... I think they should be educated; you should always drop something on an audience ... When you get in front of an audience, you should try to give 'em something. After all, they're there looking at you like this. You can't go out and give 'em nothing.

Music is the framework around the silence.

Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.

It takes a long time to sound like yourself.

I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.

It's not the notes you play, it's the notes you don't play.

If you're going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.