To play great music, you must keep your eyes on a distant star.

Searching and the route we take are more important than making a find.

Music lives and breathes to tell us who we are and what we face. It is a path between ourselves and the infinite.

I still look to music to heal and bind; I still think the musician can be a trusted object offering his fellow-man solace but also a reminder of human excellence.

Music is a therapy.It is a communication far more powerful than words, far more immediate, far more efficient.

Improvisation is not the expression of accident but rather of the accumulated yearnings, dreams and wisdom of our very soul.

Life is not a finished product, it is only what we make of it, and if we make nothing of it, someone else will, and we will be his slave.