You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.

It's always been a gift with me, hearing music the way I do. I don't know where it comes from, it's just there and I don't question it.

I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.

Play what you know and then play above that

I began to realize that some of the things Ornette Coleman had said about things being played three or fours ways, independently of each other, were true because Bach had also composed that way.

Food makes my mind sluggish.

People will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype.