Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.

Music has many uses and I think the most perfected use that music has is one of a healing quality.

All the things that human beings suffer from are how their environment treats them, and how the elements of their planet affects their mind and body--like radiation, cancer, and all.

For me, being an innovator doesn't mean being more intelligent, more rich, it's not a word, it's an action.

I wasn't so interested in being paid. I wanted to be heard. That's why I'm broke.

Whatever you do, it's over when you do it - but first you have to do it.

I don't know what they're thinking about. Just because someone says, 'I like what you do' or something: They might like it today and tomorrow they might not. I've had that experience with record companies.