Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.

Jazz demands that you bring to it things that are valuable to you, that are personal to you.

Listening is the key to everything good in music.

I love playing and working on music. It is something that I feel really lucky to be able to spend my life doing. And I don't sleep much!

Players get to that intermediate level where they can already play pretty good, and that's kind of a dangerous period because they tend to start playing only the things that they can play, rather than the things they can't.

The best musicians are not the best players, they're the best listeners.

Music is what you notice when it's no longer in your presence.