The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.

With too little judgement, we get trash. With too much judgement, we get blockage.

Every conversation is a form of Jazz. The activity of instantaneous creation is as ordinary to us as breathing.

I no longer sought skill, flexibility, strength, endurance, muscle tone, and quick responsiveness as means of imposing my will on the instrument, but rather of keeping an open and unrestricted pathway for the creative impulse to play its music straight from the preconscious depths beneath and beyond me.

If we split practice from the real thing, neither one of them will be very real.

Surrender means cultivating a comfortable attitude toward not knowing, being nurtured by the mystery of moments that are dependably surprising, ever fresh.

To do anything artistically you have to acquire technique, but create through your technique and not with it.