To create, we need both technique and freedom of technique

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

An improviser does not operate from a formless vacuum, but from three billion years of organic evolution

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

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

Improvisation is intuition in action, a way to discover the muse and learn to respond to her call.

The power of mistakes enables us to reframe creative blocks and turn them around...The troublesome parts of our work, the parts that are most baffling and frustrating, are in fact the growing edges. We see these opportunities the instant we drop our preconceptions and our self-importance.