If a creative person has a sense of humor, a sense of style and a certain amount of stubbornness, he finds a way to do what he needs to in spite of the obstacles.

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.

Brahms once remarked that the mark of an artist is how much he throws away. Nature, the great creator, is always throwing things away. A frog lays several million eggs at a sitting. Only a few dozen of these become tadpoles, and only a few of those become frogs. We can let imagination and practice be as profligate as nature.

As an improvising musician, I am not in the music business, I am not in the creativity business; I am in the surrender business.

The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.

We provide both irritation and inspiration for each other- the grist for each other's pearl making.