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

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.

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

The conception, composition, practice, and performance of a piece of music can blossom in a single moment.

Creative living, or the life of a creator, seems like a leap into the unknown only because "normal life" is rigid and traumatized.

There are only people doing their imperfect best at doing their imperfect jobs

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