I don't try to please when I play. I try to cure.

To me, human existence exists on a multiple level, not just on a two-dimensional level, not just having to be identified with what you do and what you say.

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

I mean, if you decided to go out today and get you an instrument and do whatever it is that you do, no one can tell you how you're going to do it but when you do it.

You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.

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

I'm interested in music, not in my image. If someone plays something fantastic, that I could never have thought of, it makes me happy to know it exists.