Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush

If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

To me it's no accident that all the symphony orchestras around the world tune up to the note A. And A is 440 cycles, except in Germany where it's 444. But the universe is 450 cycles. So what I'm trying to say is, I think it's God's voice, melody especially. Counterpoint, retrograde inversion, harmony... that's the science and the craft.

I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.

I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.

I tell my kids and I tell proteges, always have humility when you create and grace when you succeed, because its not about you. You are a terminal for a higher power. As soon as you accept that, you can do it forever.

It's the attitude about life, man. Looking at the light instead of the dark. Looking at love instead of fear.